Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a painting or a scene in acting or a joke. It distills something about everyday life that can be important to you.

I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me.

If you know where your spiritual center is, and you neglect it, peace will always allude you.

If you play Mark Twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing Mark Twain. That was the biggest challenge, in some ways. Writing and performing jokes that can come out of that brilliant delivery system he constructed: the friendly, avuncular truth-teller.

Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.

Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.