My mother was supportive without knowing it. Deep down she wanted all the right things, she just didn't see the world like I did, and she's not supposed to.

My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.

It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.

I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.

You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you're playing one of the best, you get better.

There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.

I've seen the future! It's a bald-headed man from New York!