Any type of humor can be transferred to the screen, as long as there's clarity. The audience wants to know just what they're supposed to be feeling, when they're supposed to laugh.

Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.

. . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me.

A day with out sun shine is like..........night

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

It's pain that changes our lives.

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.