I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself.

Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great Negro leader to escape from slavery.

When the audience begins to see the sunrise on that it's hard for them to turn away from it because they're listening to a man talking to them from over a century ago. And nothing has changed. So what are you going to do about that?

We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.