Whenever something good happens to me, it’s usually followed by something terrible.
Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.
I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money – this is the guy who needs to laugh.
When I was living in New York and didn’t have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I’d think, that’ll be good, that’ll be a good spot for me when I’m homeless.
I guess I still feel that I’m a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn’t mean that I like it, but I feel that’s what I am.
The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don’t like to have hot food for lunch.
The only change I can really see is that I don’t have to shop for pants in stores anymore.
There are times when I’m driving home after a day’s shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would’ve been so much better if I had written it out.
Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.
You have to discover when you’re inadequate to be funny and you don’t know you’re inadequate when you’re a kid.
In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.
I don’t like to analyze my music too much. It just comes welling up out of the depths of my soul.
I have no sense of well-being. There’s no chance the well will run dry.
Sometimes you have to wander a bit, and do what you don’t want to in order to figure out what it is you’re supposed to do.
Making a woman laugh. What is that about? And the prettier the woman, the more satisfaction I get. It doesn’t make any sense, but I’m being honest.
I once stopped to pick up a girl, and then there was this creepy-looking guy standing behind the bushes waiting to jump out and get in, too. So I just quickly drove away.
I couldn’t walk up to a woman at a bar and say hello.
Zero, zero belief in myself. And it’s changed somewhat, but there’s still a lot of that in me.
Luck always plays a part for everyone, whether they want to admit it or not. I was very lucky, and I know it.