One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

It's good to be the king.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Be interested in everything. You don't have to adore it. I don't adore hip-hop, I don't think it's great music, but I'm interested, I listen. I watch a lot of new films, I see everything. I still read, I like books, whether they are old books, new books. I'm interested - you gotta stay interested!

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.