I'm not very funny in real life. I used to want to be a comedian when I was 13, 14, 15, till I saw "Death Of A Salesman" with Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock.

What did you expect? 'Welcome, sonny?' 'Make yourself at home?' 'Marry my daughter?' You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons.

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

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.

On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.

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