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

Don't come on to be funny - come on to solve problems.

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.

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

I left my theatre the Loose Moose almost twenty years ago, and I hardly ever go back. Sometimes I go back to do a Mask class. They're doing more of this than I was doing when I left. Often it's the same improvisers but they're older. And now, they don't care if the theatre's full or not.

Trying to do better is trying to be better than you actually are, and I don't think you can do that.

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.