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.

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

Her business manager said, you know, Gilda [Radner] left you that house. That's when I decided to stay and test it out. And after about a month, the roots grew, and I didn't ever want to live anywhere else for the rest of my life - travel, yes, but not to live anywhere else.

I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera.

On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.