One of the reasons I love acting is because I'm so interested in other people's lives, and I often incorporate things I hear or observe into my work. I've become a bit of a 'person addict,' and so I like brushing up against lots of different characters.
Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.
Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.
The Middle East is a very difficult stage to play upon. Without doubt, it is a good drama. And on occasion, there are situations so unimaginable, if not ludicrous, as to make them almost comic. But the cast is constantly changing, the audience is often disengaged, and it seems at times that no one is actually running the show.
You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.
I still don't know much about directing a movie.
There are always things that I'd love to do. As an actor, none of them are specific; all I'm looking for are things that are good quality, that are challenging for me to work on, and even better if I get to work with people that I respect and am excited to work with.
The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.
I guess the Reagan era is defined as the 'I want it all for me, and screw everybody else' era.
I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation.
We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.
I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.
Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.
But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.
The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.
But I didn't know much about directing a movie.
The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.
I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.
