I was also a congressman. I had decided to run for office and had become a congressman with Queen Latifah.

If you've ever made up something on the spot and made somebody laugh, you can credit Jonathan Winters with inspiration.

TV's great. I think the best stuff is happening on television.

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Harry [Shearer] and I had an idea to do a movie about rock 'n' roll from the roadies' perspective, from backstage. Then Meat Loaf came out with a movie called Roadie and we thought, "Oh, we can't do that now." So we kind of discarded the idea.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.