But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working.

I was in the De Witt Clinton Hight School marching band. One of the worst bands ever formed. When we played the national anthem, people from every country stood - except Americans.

In the book of things people more often do wrong than right, investing must certainly top the list, followed closely by wallpapering and eating artichokes

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.

Fear is the greatest salesman.

And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family.

I learned more at The Second City than I did at Yale for all that high tuition.

I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse.

The '50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way and then the '60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.

Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar".

I don't know how I know that, but I do. I can feel the beat of that truth inside me. Taste it bitter on my tongue. Sometimes, like now, I didn't think I want to know who I really am.

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!

It is a great mistake to say that the Chinese are not hospitable. A more graceful, hearty hospitality than that of the Chinese I have met in no land.

Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.

Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.

If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.