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What is it about Iowa? I'm the shortest guy in the state.

I started balding at age 17 and after first being sad, I really embraced it.

I'm actually one of the more reluctant celebrities you will ever meet.

Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.

I do think that the days of gathering around a television set that functions merely as a television set, to receive a live broadcast of some networked programming, those days are probably numbered.

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.

The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.

What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.

Most of the musical film work that I have done has been in this realm of what I think of as real family entertainment.

I find when somebody says to me, 'I'm going to motivate you,' more often than not, they're not going to get me.

Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.

If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

Comedy works best when people recognise themselves.

Isn't it time you came out and told the world what you believe?

The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.

I have always wanted to play Sweeney in 'Sweeney Todd.'

I had gone to the doctor. The doctor said, 'You're healthy as a horse. You've got two weight problems - two health problems because of your weight. Please do something.'