sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.

Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

I was so cold I almost got married.

I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.

I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married.