To Have Someone Play Off And Be

The Real Joy Is In Constructing A Sentence. But I See Myself As An Actor First Because Writing Is What You Do When You Are Ready And Acting Is What You Do When Someone Else Is Ready.

I Was Very Interested In Vaudeville. It Was The Only Sort Of Discipline That Was A Five-minute Act On Stage, Which Is What I Really Enjoyed And Saw Myself Doing. And I Bought Books On It.

I Like What A Third Man Brings. A Kind Of Oblique Vision, Seeing Something In The Material That You Didn't Know Was There. As A Comedian, I'm Always Listening To The Audience. And In Movies, Sometimes The Only Audience You Have Is The Producer And The Director. I Like Having Someone Else's Opinion, Especially If You're On The Same Wavelength.

It Was So Sweet Backstage, You Should Have Seen It - The Teamsters Were Helping Michael Moore Into The Trunk Of His Limo.

It's Like Painting The Same Blank Canvas Over And Over And Over And Over And Over. Once The Concept Is Known, You Don't Need To See Two. And That Was In The Back Of My Head, That I Was Really Done Artistically With What I Had Created Or Pastiched.