I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.

At some point I stopped stand-up because I didn't have something to say on a nightly basis.

My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.

There's only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.

I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.