My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'

I won't eat in a place that has suits of armor.

That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about.