Audiences know the form in their bones, they know that romantic comedies end in an uplifting way.
In New York you can actually run into people on the street, unlike in California where you're always in the car.
People are a lot more tolerant when they're home watching TV and they're looking for a laugh.
I think the fact that I'm married to Julia, people like to take shots at me.
The casualness with which people say hello to Julia on the street is hilarious to me.
I've had situations before where there are more people giving notes than there are writers on the show.
I mean, if you look at all the great romantic screwbally kind of movies from the '30s and '40s, they're all in New York. Even 'Sleepless in Seattle,' a movie about Seattle, ends up in New York, of course. The whole country, even if they've never been to New York, knows about it... from the movies.
You start out as an artist in some way or other. And my background is all theater, and I goofed into doing TV comedy.
It's a really special skill to be able to pick up a phone the way that a human picks up a phone. It's not as easy as you think.
I was very, very happy in Chicago as an actor making $168 a week.
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I have an unbelievably beautiful, well-known wife. And the people who criticize me don't.
Marjorie Luke was funny and huge, or at least I remember her that way.
My first performance was as one of the orphans in 'Oliver!'
The theater was the place where I felt my first crush, and it's where I got my first kiss.
Comics and actors come from such a wide variety of backgrounds and there's a theory that all comedians had tortured youths.
'Saturday Night Live' is a whole different arena. It's great fun and I love it and that's what we do in the Practical theater. I believe in it wholeheartedly and will do it the rest of my life. But there's also legitimate theater, be it comedy, drama, classics or modern plays which I think is important and something I want to be involved in too.
New York is just such a perfect place for romance.
There is a dark side to being single in a great big city like New York. There's this sense of isolation and I think you can get fairly desperate.
