Mel Brooks and David Zucker - there are very few people who know silly, and they're usually hugely intelligent, because you have to be intelligent to get it. Like the Marx brothers. I love it.

When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.

I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.

Joe Mantello is the uber director. I wrote him a card tonight saying basically, 'Will you adopt me?'

Carlos Castaneda always said, "If you're going to do something, do it impeccably."

I'd always had a crush on Teri Garr - and still do. I've always adored her. I mean, who doesn't think about Teri in Young Frankenstein? I mean, come on! It makes you talk in that accent for weeks.

In my life, I find that in sobriety, I feel much more. And I have much more depth.

Am I a star? That's a different thing. I mean no, I'm not in People magazine. But I must be doing something right, because I've done it for 50 years! And I like doing what I do.

I think your resources are feeling. Your resources are depth. Your resources are learning. Your resources are touching and feeling. And for me, sobriety helps and aids all of that.

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful

Too many people today want a brotherly worldin which they can remain unbrotherly

There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer.

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by what's going on around you.

It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.

I would enjoy experiencing the hollowness of success at first- hand.

I love animals because all they really want from you is love. Too bad that's even too much to ask for from some people.

We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.

[Radical leftist] are never been a majority. We just fell for one of the greatest illusions in modern politics.