You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

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.

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.'

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

I am first, and foremost, an actor. That's what I am. To me, a song is a mini-drama. My musical ability informs the actor as well because it gives me a sense of timing that non-musicians don't have. So, one hand washes the other.

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

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.