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.

I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?

I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.

Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?

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.

[ 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.