The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.

When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.