I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.

I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.

I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

I'd never been in one of those great big blockbusters.

By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?