But if everybody's trying to stay safe, then you never really create something new and different and surprising.

It's actually good when the performers are nervous, because it kind of sharpens up your brain and a little bit of adrenaline is good. Initially it's really tough.

You get used to it, you look forward to the adrenaline of the stage fright before you go out.

he puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it's great fun to do improve comedy with puppets.

The challenge is, well, there's a huge challenge, which is when you're improvising, you're meant to sort of clear your mind completely, just be open and funny, and paying, you know, paying attention.

In many ways, I think it's easier in some ways, or it's more entertaining or more guaranteed to be entertaining than traditional improvising. Again, because you're not just you in your body.

And that was always my father's favorite part about shooting as well. Often my dad would shoot very, very late, he was quite a workaholic, they would do 20, 20-hour shoots and stuff like that.

We try to keep it a classy show, but it certainly is blue at times. And it all depends on the audience, sometimes we've have audiences that don't really want us to go too far in that direction.

I try to emulate his approach of really get the most out of people by allowing them to experiment and certainly allowing people to make mistakes.

And if the audience is in a kind of naughty, raunchy mood, then they're going to make naughty, raunchy suggestions and then we take them and we do the scene anyway, and that's part of the fun.

My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.

Half of your mastery of power comes from what you do NOT do, what you do not ALLOW yourself to get dragged into.

His mercy, not our merits, make[s] us his.

How do we know where we're going? Follow the moon! Remember, the moon is always over Hollywood, and Needles isn't far from Hollywood.

That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.

I love myself enough-not in a schmaltzy garbage sense, Hallmark stuff, I'm talking respect myself-I respect my life-force enough to no longer waste it.

It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.

In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.

Your religion is where your love is.

He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.

We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of a holy and righteous God.