America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one they are living in.

I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.

I'm delighted to make as many people feel ashamed as possible. There's probably a site like that for everybody. I've heard Newt Gingrich has his own as well.

I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.