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I’ve done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.

We arranged to spend the next day, a Sunday, looking at apartments together, followed by a round of tennis, since we both played. Before Nancy left the Pilot that night, I said to her lasciviously – I don’t know what possessed me – “Have you ever tried a comedian before?” Which was either very sexy or very creepy, depending on your opinion of me. She just stared at me, betraying no emotion, and said, “I hope you have a racket. I’m pretty good.” Our.

This lesson is, I suppose, a major reason I wrote this book: because along the way I’ve picked up the wisdom that bad things happen, and yet the sun still comes up the next day, and it’s up to you to carry on living your life and keeping your setbacks in perspective. You also have to understand that on some level, these horrible and sad things happen to everyone; the mark of a man is not just how he survives it all but also what wisdom he’s gained from the experience.

I think I’ve been really lucky to keep my career so varied, and to be open. There’s safety in repetition, but there’s also a trap there.

I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.

I decided that, as a stand-up, I’d position myself as a cerebral, observational comic, making references to Camus and Kierkegaard. I wasn’t so much concerned with getting laughs as I was with seeing audience members turn to each other at any given moment and say, “Exactly!

A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.

All you’re trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.

I’ve never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that’s the challenge.

When you start a new project and they say, “Your director is going to be Joe Blo,” you’re hoping that Joe Blo will be the next Martin Scorsese, but it doesn’t always work out that way.

Whether arrogantly or what, I view myself simply as an actor.

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

I still do live concerts all over the country – about four a month – with singing and characters and improv. It keeps me limber. I’ll never lose that. And comedy is still the bread and butter.

What’s great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It’s not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

An actor can spew out thoughts, but they’re not all gold.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It’s very easy to get lulled.

I think I’m funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

Being the youngest of five, you’re adored, you’re fueled with confidence.

All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done.

I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It’s always fun to defy expectations.

As I write this, I am sixty-four years old, with, I hope, many more years to live and lots more to do. And, by the way, no face work. I know you’re thinking, “No kidding.” But cosmetic surgery just doesn’t work on a man. Were I to take the plunge, no one would ever say, “Whoa, who’s that really hot thirty-eight-year-old dude?” They’d say, “Who’s that sixty-four-year-old who’s been in a fire?” Being.

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

I’m an actor who loves doing comedy.

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

A few years ago, I won a Tony for Little Me and I learned two important lessons from that experience. 1. Fair-weather friends are so much more interesting to be around and 2. It’s amazing what this award fetches on E-Bay.

There was an era when people would turn on their radio and hear a radio drama. Now, you could be as scared by that as seeing it filmed. In those days, people used to sit by the fire and imagine what they were hearing. Everything is its own art form.

Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Everything remains as it was. The old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no sorrow in your tone. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.

When you have to worry about paying the rent, you’re never bored. You’re just happy to have that job. But once you don’t have to worry and reach the point where it’s no longer about the money, you’re able to look at other opportunities outside of your comfort zone.

Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.

It’s better to love a short...

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

I’m totally aware of how lucky I am. I have health, family, children. I do work that gives me total joy and allows me to make a living, and maybe, if I’m lucky enough, I’ll feel I’ve fulfilled a little bit of service to society because I brought other people some laughter.

Discipline is essential to life, whether you are administering or inflicting the spanking.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

People do think I’m Jewish. But we’re Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

I’ve chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.

Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job.

I pretend I’m one of the royal family when I’m in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me – it is a palace.

No one is any one thing.

If you have wonderful moments, don’t second-guess them, just enjoy them.

The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family’s attention and love.