When you please your mother by doing something, it gives you confidence that you can please other people.

On screen, Gene Wilder could often be summed up as an accident waiting to happen, that frizzy, flyaway hair, the eyes darting this way and that and then something would set him off, Zero Mostel, say, in the movie that made Wilder a star, "The Producers."

To match the shoes with the jacket is fey. To match the shoes with the hat is taste.

If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier

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.

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.

As they say in Corsica... Goodbye!