I always thought it was great to be able to make people feel better. It was a little like being God.

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.

I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.

You want to be as smart as you can about being stupid.

I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?

I was adored [as a kid]. I was always in the air, hurled up and kissed and thrown in the air again. Until I was six, my feet didn't touch the ground. "Look at those eyes! That nose! Those lips! That tooth! Get that child away from me, quick! I'll eat him!" Giving that up was very difficult later on in life.

Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you.