I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.

What good is a character who's always winking at the audience to let them in on the secret?

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.

If my mother hadn't laughed at the funny things I did, I probably wouldn't be a comic actor. After she had her first heart attack, the doctor said, 'Try to make her laugh.' And that was the first time I tried to make anyone laugh.