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

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.

I love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better laugh a lot and enjoy ourselves. You either get a sense of humor going or you go under.

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

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

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.