I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.

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

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.

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

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.

[ Zero Mostel] would tell anyone anything, not to be impolite, but he'd show that he wasn't at all afraid of however much money that person [had] or whatever title they had in a company. It didn't scare him. Mel [Brooks] was very much the same way.