When I first saw Dick Gregory on television, growing up in Queens, it was startling and amazing, because nobody else was doing what he was doing.

When I was growing up, all these superheroes were white. On some level, you put that out of your mind... but as you get older, you realize it's a very one-sided affair. So I'm very glad to see that these movies are becoming more diversified.

Most of my career I purposely spent doing good guys.

I've played good guys for most of my career, and when I came out to California, I thought, 'I really would like to find some wonderfully intelligent bad guy to play.'

All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world.

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

I used to do comedy during my theatre days, and I was good at that.

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.