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

You give up your dream, you give up.

A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.

I had a dream that Connie Chung is doing a newscast about my death and they show a clip from Soap.

[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle was a giant [music producer], but my dad in particular had the house filled with these Dixieland jazz stars.

I had really good hearing and when you're scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.