You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‘Well gee, let’s not mess this up.’ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.
The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.
Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.
When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.
I like money, but it’s never been about the money.
A lot of advertising has gotten worse. I think it’s kind of lost its nerve, to be honest with you. I feel like the advertising of the ’60s, they were nervier. You know why? Because there was less at stake.
I think it’s funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.
There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.
Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.
You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‘Well gee, let’s not mess this up.’ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.
The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!
I like definitive things.
You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.
The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.
Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.
The Beatles created something that never trailed off. What a gift that was to their fans. If you’re into the Beatles, you loved them from beginning to end.
We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.
Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.
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