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

The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.

[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.

I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's. I didn't think I had the right.

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

The big catalyst was seeing my sister, when I was 11, doing a dramatic recital. When I saw her on the stage and everyone listening to her so patiently, quietly, that's all I wanted: for someone to look at me and listen to me, but in some beautiful and artistic way.

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