What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her?

I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair.

I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.

With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.