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I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.

While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!

I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

You know ladies and gentlemen, a long time ago , there were lots of people, but that was a long time ago

I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

I'm more of a people pleaser.

If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.

If I only ran when nothing hurt, I would never run.

You know, sometimes you can't just take an armadillo, put it in the barn, light it on fire and expect it to make licorice.

A mom and dad found an S&M magazine under their 10-year-old son's bed, and the dad said, 'Well, we sure can't spank him.'

I'm a real people-pleaser.

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

I think ABC sort of hoped I would be really like Carol Burnett. I mean literally, I think.

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

I'm a friend of the CEO of Twitter and he showed me how to be on it, but it causes such an uproar if what you post is perceived in a negative light.

I never read the tabloids.

You know, Elizabeth Taylor must be in Heaven going, 'Alright, fire two honey!'

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.

I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.