With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

I love JFK. My mother had been a worker on his campaign and adored him.

I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do.

As an actor and a director, I always let my actors go... assuming they have good ideas.

I understood the workmanlike quality of a good stand-up. They all have this. There's a technique for everything you do. But boy, it's tough, 'cause there ain't anybody else out there but you.

I'd come up with one leg in theater, but never my first leg. I loved the camera too much.

Life has its ups and downs, so to expect otherwise is setting yourself up for disappointment.

I kept thinking that with all those first jobs, "This is the beginning of something!" And then nothing would happen. That's the real Hollywood.

As a director, I know everybody's job, and I know how to do it. I can smell bullshit when someone's telling me it can't be done, because I've seen it done a hundred thousand times.

I love horror films. And I like chick flicks! I like to approach the different genres of moviemaking and explore them. And you get a little better the more you do them.

Tucker's Witch was the first television I'd done in a while. It was just before Moonlighting, and just before you could get a little more outrageous on TV. We had a great premise.

A writer seizes every opportunity to wonder.

Find a need and fill it.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising.

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

I have a few cavities. I don't like to call them cavities, though - I like to call them 'places to put stuff'. 'Do you know where I can store a pea' 'Yes, I have some locations available.'

Last week I told my wife, If you would learn to cook, I could fire the chef. She said, If you could learn to make love, I could fire the chauffer.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.