I liked myself better when I wasnt me.

I couldn't get the laughter out of my head. It wasn't career. It wasn't even a choice. It was a calling.

I'm really not that funny in real life. But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.

No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then - I guess it's still the same way - you had to take an acting class.

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them.