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.

[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is what has made it a great American novel and the most widely read book in American Literature around the world today.

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

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

Please don't refer to me as "channeling Mark Twain." I'm an actor. Not a channeler. That word is an iPhone shortcut. Acting is more eloquent than that.

The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.