I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to kind of navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.

I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!

I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.