Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

I kind of do it in my head, then I'll try pieces of it on stage and if it looks promising, I'll put it together.

I think everyone probably starts out sounding like someone else, but gradually you develop your own sound.

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

I've done more than I thought I was ever going to do. I've had a very long and very satisfying career.

I love portraying the totally indifferent person.