I don't want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I'm completely confused. I'm like, 'Didn't you make that movie already?' I've been very fortunate, and I'm well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

There's different kinds of laughs. It's like a baseball lineup: this guy's your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we're gonna win.

When I was a comic in the 1980s, I was on the road somewhere every day, and I'd get back to the hotel, and it was Carson and Letterman, and I looked forward to that all day.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive.

It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.

I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.

You can get away with making some extremely bold statements by Trojan Horsing them into a narrative via comedy.

I joke and I say, 'I need to go back to make a supernatural horror film just to so that I can make a movie that's grounded again.'