We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.
In Russia, if a male athelete loses he becomes a female athelete.
Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
In America, you drive car. In Soviet Russia, car drive you!
I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.