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

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

I love spaghetti and sex, sometimes together. My dream of heaven is walking naked through fields of pasta fazool.

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

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.

My liveliness is based on an incredible fear of death. In order to keep death at bay, I do a lot of "Yah! Yah! Yah!" And death says, "All right. He's too noisy and busy. I'll wait for someone who's sitting quietly, half asleep."

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