When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.

I've had great success being a total idiot.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

Comedy is a man in trouble. And without it, there's no humor.

It'll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look around in the wildest laboratory in the world, the public.

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.