I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.She made me believe that I could make someone laugh.

I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.

My agent at the time, Mike Medavoy, before he became a movie mogul, called me up and said, how about a movie with you and Peter Boyle and Marty Feldman? And I said, well, what makes you think of that? He said because I now handle you and Peter Marty.

I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera.

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

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