I was too ignorant to realize, "Oh, this will be difficult."

I was just utterly oblivious to how difficult it was, and how difficult it was going to be, and then also in the mid-eighties through the mid-nineties there was a boom of sorts. So there were plenty of stages. If I had started now, there would be very few places to get better and better.

German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although Hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. There's this beautiful woman I know who speaks Hebrew, and when she speaks, it's so attractive. Maybe it's who's speaking it.

As you can tell from watching the show, I'm not a strong joke writer per se.

I don't know that I would need to be famous as a Middle East policy expert to see that unilateral imperialism is bad policy.

Sometimes the critics review me harshly for not being critical of government but it's not me who has said I was political.

I hate high fashion. I hate that we reward people for being genetic freaks. You hear the guys announcing the runway shows saying, 'A pretty face is your best asset this season.' And what? Ugly girls had a free ride last year?