And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working.

I was in the De Witt Clinton Hight School marching band. One of the worst bands ever formed. When we played the national anthem, people from every country stood - except Americans.

In the book of things people more often do wrong than right, investing must certainly top the list, followed closely by wallpapering and eating artichokes

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.

Fear is the greatest salesman.

My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family.

I learned more at The Second City than I did at Yale for all that high tuition.

I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse.

The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way and then the '60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.

Without the fear of God it is impossible to say ‘No’ to temptations and evil

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh. "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.

The only sport I really get into is snowboarding. Cause that's the only sport where they perform a half pipe just after smoking a full pipe.

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day-if you live long enough-like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

Every day is beautiful when you're holding hands with your best friend.

A lot of it [success] is luck. That's a huge part of it that no one wants to talk about. You just got to be in the right place at the right time.

Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.

A vida sem luta é um mar morto no centro do organismo universal.