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Anytime there's originality and comedy combined, it's very potent for people who love comedy.

Eugene Levy is my closest friend.

David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny.

I was a huge fan of Steve Martin, as everyone I knew in comedy was.

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

When kids like Steven Spielberg were eight and nine and 10, they had little cameras, and that's all they wanted to do. When I was 10, I was in my attic pretending to host my own variety show. Spielberg wasn't. That's why he's a film director, and I'm doing what I'm doing.

There's a lot of insecure, sad people in any profession.

I think Canadians are great satirists because we sit in the middle of these two giants: Great Britain and the U.S.

No one doesn't have loss. No one doesn't have pain.

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

I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.

Comedy is a weird thing.

You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.

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

No one is any one thing.

Some people you work on a film with, and then they disappear.

My job is not to analyze my career. But I am proud of the amount of work I've done and the amount of commitment I've given to it. That makes me proud.

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.

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

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.

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