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.

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.

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.

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

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.

A few years ago, I won a Tony for Little Me and I learned two important lessons from that experience. 1. Fair-weather friends are so much more interesting to be around and 2. It's amazing what this award fetches on E-Bay.