Whenever I get down about life going by too quickly, what helps me is a little mantra that I repeat to myself: at least I'm not a fruit fly.

If I'm really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either way. You can just do the same character over and over again and make a different comedy like over and over again.

When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.

My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.

My wife said to me 'I hope you win... but if you do and you go up and say you love me, don't think it makes up for never saying it when we're alone.

The fact that they let me in a movie with Gene Hackman has left me with no faith in show buisness.