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

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

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've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.

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?

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

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