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

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

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.

People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business in the '50s. Who's right, who's wrong? Who's an idiot, who's not?

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

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.

Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.