When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.

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

The more serious the situation, the funnier the comedy can be. The greatest comedy plays against the greatest tragedy. Comedy is a red rubber ball and if you throw it against a soft, funny wall, it will not come back. But if you throw it against the hard wall of ultimate reality, it will bounce back and be very lively. Very, very few people understand this.

I have been lucky that some critics joined the mob in loving something I've done, or in appreciating it. I've been lucky. But most of the critics don't like what the people like. I think they have a very strange job, and they are meant to criticize.

Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.