With classic sitcoms like MASH, the characters all drove each other crazy, and that's what you loved to see.

I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged just so.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

Im a huge fan of The Odd Couple, yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome. I kind of try to channel those guys, and then add my own neuroses, too.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. Ive got no plans to stop doing it.

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I dont take myself too seriously.

A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but nice, too.

I do have a chore schedule - in my mind. I dont tell anyone I have it, but its in my mind.

When I met Bono at the Cannes Film festival while I was there for the film 'United 93, ' he said to me, 'That's a great film, brother. Thank you for your courage in making it.' I plotzed.

Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.

Nature is malleable and nature learns.

For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.

Be praised, O my Lord by Brother Wind, By air and cloud and every clime To whom Thou givest sustenance unto their kind.

Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it."

My father used to brag that I wasn't a ham, I was the whole pig.

The higher I get the lower I sink.

Every boo on the road is a cheer.

Racing is not football or baseball or basketball where you can do it yourself. If you're good in high school, you just shine. (But in racing) you have to have a family behind you.

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.