I would not want to do one-episode television - that's just a brief encounter with your audience. The arc takes the actor into an arena where he can really stretch.
When you are debilitated, and you're very depressed, and you believe there's no hope, you cannot get a better potpourri of down.
My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.
If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.
We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.
I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have and I never will. I'm an entertainer for 75 years.
You see, the people that have a point of view and have an opinion and have some intellect are dangerous in the film community - they're dangerous.
I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.
There's something wonderful about taking a tag off a pair of socks, off a shirt, off a jacket. I really think that it has to do with my wanting to give myself all the perks that there are. It's part of my psychosis.
Seeing a woman project the kind of aggression that you have to project as a comic just rubs me wrong.
I have always said that I cannot allow the child within me to die. It's kept me alive.
I tell young comics, 'Do you want this badly enough? It's there. But you have to go get it. And if you think I'm going to give you the key to the lock of that door, there is no key, there is no lock, and there is no door.'
There's nothing more dramatic than the comedy I've done. Because the comedy I've done is to get to the audience, get them to feel it, or they won't laugh.
Red is uplifting.
Interviews are vital, but you cannot allow an interviewer to take your life and disturb it.
I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.
Commercial television has underestimated the intelligence of the public.
When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.
I get paid for what most kids get punished for.
I need the applause.
