The Real Good Comedians, Like Chaplin, Would

The Talented Actor Needs Craft. When You Do A Stage Play, You Do It Once Each Night In Chronological Order. In A Film You're Going To Wind Up Doing A Scene 15-20 Times, Just By The Nature Of The Process. If I Tell You A Joke Once, It's Funny. The More Times I Tell, The Less Funny It Is. How Do You Get To The Point Where You Can Laugh Again? You Also May Have To Cry Again And Again.

It's Ok To Be Wrong. You Learn From Your Wrongs. You Don't Learn From Being Right. If You're Right, You Already Know It. If You're Wrong, It's Because You Don't Know About It, And You Made A Mistake.

Most Acting Today On Television Is Like A Locomotive On A Track. Everybody Knows What They Are Doing. The Problem Of Writing Today Is Everyone Sounds The Same. We Speak Differently. We Think Differently. People Are Different. And That's The Beauty Of It.

My Mantra Is "stay Perpendicular." Horizontal Is Not As Good. Half The People That Came Along And Up With With Me Are Either Gone To Another Dimension Or Don't Remember What They Had For Lunch. I'm Fortunate. I Don't Know Why. I Just Want To Have A Good Time.

Everything That Has Happened To Me Is Of Value To Me. As Painful As Certain Things Are, And Have Been, And Were, There's A Use For Those Things In My Life And In My Work