"As they say in Corsica... Goodbye"

"If there's an audience, I think they're going to expect me to be funny. But what if I'm not funny? What if I fail?"

"Dont put the sheep on the table"

"I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson roles or Kevin Costner roles, because I'm not going to be good at them."

"I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character."

"I feel alone and safe in public."

"I live in a small town in Connecticut, and they don't write scripts there, but I get them anyway because my agent is in Los Angeles."

"I'm not from Hollywood, and I'm also not one of the people who wants to do a tell-all, and I hate tell-alls. I didn't want to tell all."

"When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way."

"I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me."

"I was a milksop as a kid. I had no confidence, no guts. I felt I was going to be someone else someday - someone who didn't have my weaknesses."

"I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life, and then you call it fate."

"I didn't want to be a comedian. I wanted to be an actor - maybe a comic actor, but a real actor - by real, I mean not a comedian. I wanted to be an actor."

"Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple"

"I know a lot of sad people who aren't comedians."

"When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy."

"There seems to be a pattern. I get one good script every two years."

"Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones."

"I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that's a whole other thing - but let's say Woody Allen. But the more I've written, the more I've found that there is a deep well in me somewhere that wants to express things that I'm not going to find unless I write them myself."

"If my mother hadn't laughed at the funny things I did, I probably wouldn't be a comic actor. After she had her first heart attack, the doctor said, 'Try to make her laugh.' And that was the first time I tried to make anyone laugh."

"What do actors really want? To be great actors? Yes, but you can't buy talent, so it's best to leave the word 'great' out of it. I think to be believed, onstage or onscreen, is the one hope that all actors share."

"I'm an actor, not a clown."

"The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time."

"I feel very Jewish, and I feel very grateful to be Jewish. But I don't believe in God or anything to do with the Jewish religion."