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

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

I make people laugh for a living. I believe I can say objectively that what I do I do as well as anybody. Just say I'm one of the best broken field runners that ever lived. For 35 years I was a cult hero, an underground funny.

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.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.

He who hesitates is poor.