Comedy may be big business but it isn’t pretty.
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
I did a lot of things when I first started out. In order to be in show business, I juggled, I did magic tricks, cards tricks and I played the banjo.
I am a wild and crazy guy!
I didn’t worry if a bit got no response, as long as I believed it had enough response to linger.
Always do business as if the person you’re doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he’s not, you can be pleasantly surprised.
I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.
Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.
If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much.
There’s a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There’s a lot of sex, you know, in art. There’s a lot of naked women and men, and there’s intrigue, there’s fakery. It’s a real microcosm of the larger world.
You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.
The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack for causing heartbreak was innate, but her vitality often made people forgive her romantic misdeeds.
Being on Twitter is like having a fern.
I’m not Vegas. Places I play usually cost like $3 to get in, you know, and people are going: Gee, I’ve got $3, I think I’ll throw it away.
He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.
College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.
You know, there’s a moment when you’re famous when it’s unbearable to go out because you’re too famous. And then there’s a moment when you’re famous just right.
Mirabelle is attractive; it’s just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.
Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.