I'm a baby. I sleep like a baby - I'm up every two hours. And I think a lot. I worry a lot. I have great nights of no sleep where ideas come.

I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach - Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did - he was a giant.

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

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.

You give up your dream, you give up.

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