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.

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.

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

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.

The world is yours. Occupy it sacred space.

The brighter the light, the deeper the shadow.

Have as much fun as you can in life because you never know when it will end.

Oh! Lord should I forget anything, never let me forget that without you I am nothing.

Work is work, but family is for life. That's what really matters to me.

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in), people don't speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.

The foolhardy are not necessarily stupid, for fools simply follow their imagination whereas the stupid have none.

My heart is so heavy when I see the reality of the Indian reservation and as an American, I know I am, too, responsible.