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.

The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.

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

When you start a new project and they say, "Your director is going to be Joe Blo," you're hoping that Joe Blo will be the next Martin Scorsese, but it doesn't always work out that way.

Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job.