My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk.

In fact, [Gene Wilder] had made a hysteric seem considerably less funny in his film debut as a terrified undertaker in "Bonnie And Clyde." And neurotics soon became his stock-in-trade, whether he was playing the weird title character in "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory..."

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

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!

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