I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

• I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'
• The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore.
• Obviously comedic styles do change.
• Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair... Change my name, just see what happens.
• The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
• When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.
• Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.
• If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
• I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.
• You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.