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.

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.

I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian.

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next decade. E-mail, which now sends data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light, has replaced primitive forms of communication such as smoke signals, which sent data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light.

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.

I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.