When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.She made me believe that I could make someone laugh.

[Gilda Radner] died in '89, and I got non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2000. I've just passed the five-year mark and I'm now what you call - well, it's called complete remission, but I'm cured. I'm fine.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?

Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.

I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of New York Jewish humor.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.

My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.