There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you shouldn't understand.

I remember one play [when I was kid] was about this murderous mad scientist, and my whole part was to be the guy who got thrown into a vat of acid as the curtain went up. I was very pissed off at these older kids; they'd outsmarted me.

Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.

I don't really want to direct myself, but I'm certainly torn in that direction.

I take having a kids' show real seriously. I think it's an enormous responsibility.

I can be on the Tonight Show, but not with Johnny [Carson]. He uses my name in his monologue all the time.

There were just things in Disney movies that probably were too scary for kids.