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.

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?

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

I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

There was an era when people would turn on their radio and hear a radio drama. Now, you could be as scared by that as seeing it filmed. In those days, people used to sit by the fire and imagine what they were hearing. Everything is its own art form.

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