I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.

This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.

I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.

I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.

TV is the best babysitter.

That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story.

When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.

Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading it - so they'll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it.

As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.

But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.

I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.

It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

If you want to direct, you've got to work.

Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them.

Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?

Yeah, the material's been good so far, although I'm sure there's got to be a drought coming someday.

I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.

Relax. Just relax and have fun doing what youre doing. Dont worry so much about being results oriented. Just commit yourself to the moment.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.

A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.

I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

That title, is one of the things I fought for. A lot of people said "But it's stupid, and it's the title of a comedy movie, and people won't take it seriously," and I'm sure there are some people who still don't. But for the most part, people do see that we really have a quality show.

I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.