The fact that I didn't finish school left me with a lifelong need to prove that I'm smart, prove it to myself, maybe to the world. I [also] needed to be - not the center of attention - but I needed to be able to attract attention when I wanted it, through my stunts and my fooling around physically with faces or postures or voices I would do. Those things are important elements in the drive behind all of this [my career].

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

For a long time, I've distinguished between entertainer and performer and entertainer and artist. To me, an entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself.

With humans it's abortion, but with chickens it's an omelet.

The older you get, the better you realize you were.

If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?

No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.