When people, especially from France, would ask me to talk about or so they could write about New York Jewish humor, I'd say I don't know anything about New York Jewish humor. I know who Zero Mostel was and I know Mel Brooks, but that's about all I could tell you about New York Jewish humor.

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

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.

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

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.

So shines a good deed... in a weary world.

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.