People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

An actor can spew out thoughts, but they're not all gold.

[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.

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

I'm an actor who loves doing comedy.

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.

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