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

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

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

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

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 met [Gilda Radner] on the first night of filming ... Hanky Panky that Sidney Poitier was directing. And it's funny, I was in costume and makeup - my tuxedo and makeup because I'd done a few shots before she arrived, and she told me later that she cried all the way in, in the car, because she knew that she was going to fall in love with me and want to get married.