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

[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.

Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most.

Dont put the sheep on the table.

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

Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?

When people, especially from France, would ask me to talk about or so they could write about New York Jewish humor, I'd say I don't know anything about New York Jewish humor. I know who Zero Mostel was and I know Mel Brooks, but that's about all I could tell you about New York Jewish humor.