I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'

You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.