[On Green Acres] "The comedy is like Pickwick Papers, or Gulliver's Travels, or Voltaire. It's so far out that it becomes truth, deep truth". "I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people." "Everyone gets tired of the rat race. Everyone would like to chuck it all and grow some carrots. It's basic. Sign me. I knew it would be successful. Had to be. It's about the atavistic urge, and people have been getting a charge out of that ever since Aristophanes wrote about the plebes and the city folk." - on why he accepted the role on Green Acres. [on his post-war career] "I took everything they could throw at me, pictures like The Dude Goes West and The Fuller Brush Girl. I worked myself back up, but I never wanted to be a star. I was aiming to play the star's best friend."