Tape "Seinfeld" for me.

You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.

Funny is when you're serious.

And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on.

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

People who become comedians… come from pain, come from conflict.

I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.

Without roots a tree, no matter how tall, cannot stand.

And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.

Whenas in silks my Julia goes Then then methinks how sweetly flows The liquefaction of her clothes!

Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.

Without any hope you cannot talk about suffering. If you talk about suffering without hope it's enjoying our euthanization. I tried to avoid euthanization enjoyment.

It's not about me, it's about the grandkids. That's what a lot of people don't understand about what Herman is up to.

I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned.

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity.