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I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes.
My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.
I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying.
You come into this world, not knowing who you are, and sometimes, if you live long enough, you go out not knowing who you are.
I may not be playing with a full deck but I don't need a full deck. I have four aces.
I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.
I was talking to a businessman, and I said, Don't you think most men are little boys? And he said, I'm no little boy! I make seventy-five thousand dollars a year. And I said, Well, the way I look at it - you just have bigger toys.
The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.
My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.
As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to meet it.
I know you can be funny without being filthy.
I've always been proud of being a Marine. I won't hesitate to defend the Corps.
God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.
My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.
I don't do anything the same every day. Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.
You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.
Throughout my life, I've been gratified that I've been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the camera guy ... It's you. You're on. You've got to do it, and you either sink or swim with what you've got.
