The best thing to do is to get out in front of an audience as much as you can, and learn from the experience.

No one knows anything. You're going to make mistakes and you're going to do things that people think are stupid. You can't sit there and go, "I never want to make a mistake."

It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged.

If a guy doesn't like a funny girl, something is wrong with him.

A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

Growing up in Oklahoma, there wasn't much to do. Play sports, do a lot of drugs, or read and watch movies, which is what I did.

Yeah, improvising only really works 100% when you're with somebody.

All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.

I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.

Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.

As one who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world.

If there were lies to photography, I figured, there was truth too, truths we’d never see if not through the dispassionate glass eye of a camera.

Rules meant order. Without them they’d be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parking in disabled spaces, with smoking in elevators. And it ended in murder.

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

You should see my house. It's sort of explosive. Like a crazy person lives there.

The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.