I've always loved songwriting, and I vowed to be a songwriter like Cole Porter when I was only 9 years old.

The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you.

Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen. So if you have a valuable idea, the only way to protect it is to direct it.

Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. The job is to make people laugh. I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

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.

Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.