What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.

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

All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done.

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

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

[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.