'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.

College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.

I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you never know you are funny until people laugh. It's just what I was interested in. I could make people laugh, I guess, but doing it at school and doing it onstage are very different things.

I love doing my surreal sing-along that had words that no one could follow.

You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.

I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

I try not to think about legacy because it is all ­folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten.