I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business: A Memoir (ed. Crown Archetype, 2011) - ISBN: 9780307592262