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

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

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 met Richard Pryor for the first time in Calgary, in Canada. A very quiet, modest meeting.

Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.

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."

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple