I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.

But the acting process - create a human being - was real, not only to the audience, but real to me.

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.

Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.

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.

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

There wasn't a funeral per se. I buried [Gilda Radner] 3 miles from her house that she had bought just shortly before we met. It was an old house, old colonial house, 1734. And there were just a few friends at the funeral, a nonsectarian cemetery. And an old friend of hers from junior high school or high school was the rabbi in town, and he performed the service.