Everybody has to learn that the world works in very specific ways, and you're not in charge of it.

It's often hope, hopeful movie making. You're always looking for catchphrases. That's always funny, when you're looking for that future line. "Uh oh, future line. Okay."

I'm as serious as a heart attack.

Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'

I approach my work the way an actor approaches their work. The only difference is that I do comedy, and my job is to make things funny. My style makes things sound like they're improvisational and happening right then and there.