When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.

We follow a certain pattern, a maze, if you will, every day, tracing our steps into certain districts and neighborhoods and back home. So it's easy for people to relate to clichés. That's why comedy routines are based on mutual experiences of clichés.

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love.

Boxing is a great exercise ... as long as you can yell "cut" whenever you want to.

I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.