Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, persecuting, distasteful, verbose, a show-off.

There's no question that I'm all of those things.

I think you should all know that Bert Reynolds is a very dear friend of mine

that he and Dinah Shore

are going to the Super Bowl game Sunday

with Emmy and me

and we are going suitably attired.

He is going in the nude and...

And my vital organ will be covered.

There'll be a tape over my mouth.

Tell me, how does it feel? I know you ask people this. Now I'm going to ask you, how does this feel? How's it feel to be this important that you have 2,500 guys that are paying quite a lot of money to see you today? I think it's long overdue, don't you know? I think you see you guys. That's our humble Howard.

Every person's performance life falls into different categories.

And people ask me, well, when did I really become big on the assumption that I have become

big in the entertainment world?

Well, the first thing was Muhammad Ali in the whole series of dialogues on why they're all the sports.

Remember when we got thrown out of the country and we had to go up and fight Chivalo and then

we did the three European fights, right? And everybody said, keep Ali out of the country and we had to go up and fight Chivalo and then we did the three European fights right and everybody said keep Ali out of the country because he said

he got nothing against the Viet Cong right the great profit right one guy the only

guy that went to Ali's defense was Howard Costell it was a tragic thing to see

such a totality of ignorance because that's what it amounted to.

The press endorsed a violation first of the Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process, as you know.

My God, the man refused to take a step.

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