I think I've been really lucky to keep my career so varied, and to be open. There's safety in repetition, but there's also a trap there.

When you have to worry about paying the rent, you're never bored. You're just happy to have that job. But once you don't have to worry and reach the point where it's no longer about the money, you're able to look at other opportunities outside of your comfort zone.

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.

There was an era when people would turn on their radio and hear a radio drama. Now, you could be as scared by that as seeing it filmed. In those days, people used to sit by the fire and imagine what they were hearing. Everything is its own art form.

I think I've been really lucky to keep my career so varied, and to be open. There's safety in repetition, but there's also a trap there.

[Ed Grimley] lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It's called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the '80s for About an Hour. He's there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz's 'That's the ticket' guy.