If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."

Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal.

It was kind of a decompression - from straight alcohol to mixed drinks to wine to spritzers - and then you're out.

Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'

Sometimes you can have a whole lifetime in a day and never notice that this is a beautiful as it gets.

Honey, you [Michael Jackson] gotta pick a race first. All of a sudden you're a black man, then you're Diana Ross, now you're Audrey Hepburn. Then he's got the little beard going on. He's like Lord of the Rings, the entire cast. Michael's about to jump species.

There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.