The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles' heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

You know ladies and gentlemen, a long time ago , there were lots of people, but that was a long time ago

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

My characters all start with rhythms and sounds. Once I hear the voice and get into the rhythm, the attitude and the physicality just come out on their own.

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.