I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.

What's nice about the rain is you don't feel you have to live up to anything. Everything around you is so grey and wet and damp and dreary that you don't feel you have to smile and percolate as you do on a sunny spring day.

I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months.

I really consider myself a Californian, but I have those great comedic roots in Brooklyn.

I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They’re superficial and I like articulate comedy.

Maybe in adopting an adolescent attitude you then take on the look of a young person.