The way I was parented did affect my parenting - probably in the reverse. My dad was pretty strict, and the next generation probably wants to be less strict.

Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.

I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be.

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.

On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.

I've never been a big fan of improvisation, because I think you appreciate the process and the cleverness of it more than the actual comedy in most cases.

I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was raising two kids off camera who were not unlike the two kids who were being paid to be my kids.

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

It's a long road. Setbacks don't actually matter.

There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.

Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

Beware of advice-even this.

The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.

I just want to be a good friend to people, that's all.

Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses.

I like books. I've always got a literature book going. I'd be in there reading, in my off time.

Life is a test and this world a place of trial.