None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.

Very hard to get an audience. So if you're going to fill the theatre, you can't just rely on old stuff.

If it weren't for fear, I wouldn't have to teach you a damn thing

I see a great lack of stories around. I bought six literary magazines and looked through them to see what people were doing. There wasn't a story in them. They were all about how poetic the feelings of the author were.

I'm not against work, I think work is great, I work a lot; but if you want to play, the consequences must not be important.

When you want to have entertainment, it must be a waste of time. I don't like that. I don't like improvisation being pointless.

I tell people not to do their best. I don't know when that started. Quite a while ago. Because I . . . when they're doing their best I don't get their best. So I try to persuade them to be average. Because if you're wonderful and you're average, you're still wonderful. If you're a bad improviser and you're average, you're what you are.