If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

I liked the old comic books, especially the funny ones like 'Popeye' and 'Beetle Bailey.'

This is why improvisational music and comedy is so inspiring: You are seeing something being born, and that energy, there is no substitute for. These songs, most of them, are about a minute old when you hear them.

I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.