I still do live concerts all over the country - about four a month - with singing and characters and improv. It keeps me limber. I'll never lose that. And comedy is still the bread and butter.

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.

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 hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.

[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.

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

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