The Harvey Lembeck Workshop was for me a support group. A place where I had the freedom to fall on my face.

[How John wants to be remembered] "Just as a guy who was interested in the golden thread that intertwines all of us together. You know, that golden thread that goes through me and you, and the cameraman, and all the people out there and back through Nancy. That`s what an artist can do, that someone - anyone - could do, if they`re willing to pluck that. And either it makes you laugh or it makes you cry, it`s that golden thread of humanity, and I`d like to be remembered as maybe a guy who plucked a few of those."

Three`s Company (1977) was originally called "Three Companies", about a trio of pharmaceutical companies. It was 10 times funnier.

I once had a heated argument with Don Knotts. He looked me dead in the eye and said that I wasn`t fit to shine Andy Griffith`s shoes. I stayed up all night thinking about that.

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you`re in television, you`re lying because you`re just pretending to be yourself much like I`m doing now.