When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.

I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch.

I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else - that would be fatal.

Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry.

I'd rather you didn't talk, but it's up to you.

I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting.

It's all rather political, mourning is.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

When it comes to 'Glee, ' I feel like I've been in a relationship, and now I can mingle a bit.

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

It becomes harder and harder to say where the world stops and the person begins.

You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.

A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.

Pressure is trying to make a putt for a $10 bet with only $5 in your pocket.

My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.

Once on the streets of New York a woman called the police because her child spoke to me.