You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous.

I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.

For a while you get mad, then you get over it.

An alcoholic is someone who can violate his standards faster than he can lower them.

I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.

I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'