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.

I'm not very funny in real life. I used to want to be a comedian when I was 13, 14, 15, till I saw "Death Of A Salesman" with Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock.

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!

Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.

I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.

I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.