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

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

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

When you please your mother by doing something, it gives you confidence that you can please other people.

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.

I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of New York Jewish humor.

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.