It's very hard sometimes when you can't crack something or can't solve something and you keep trying and trying and you know it's falling a little bit short. That's very hard, but then when you finally do it, it's very rewarding and the process is good too, I like working with people this way.

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.

These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.

Or is it that I think too much?

I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have, it turns out, an affection for the war years.

Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.

Always make room for the unexpected in yourself.