I’m still bald, I just wear a toupee.

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy – it’s addictive.

I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.

In New York, the theater is a destination point. In Los Angeles, no matter how provocative, how successful, how star-studded the theater event may be, it is, at best, a second-class citizen.

I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions...

Most stand-up comics relish performing ‘in one’ – solo. They like the autonomy.

You need to find the size of performance that’s appropriate to the material, appropriate to the shot, or appropriate to the scene.

Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is never something that feels like it’s...

Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic...

I was a shy and insecure kid and didn’t know quite where I fit.

It’s a question of finding the right thing, if I’m going to be an actor… if I have to get up eight times a week for a number of months, I want to be excited...

I kept being asked by corporations to do corporate gigs. And I said, ‘I don’t have anything. I’m not a stand-up. You want me to come sing show tunes for you? I don’t think so.’

Poker is just a hobby I’m passionate about. It’s not supposed to bring glory.

Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that’s why there’s so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.

Actors go, ‘I just want to act.’ And I say to them, ‘You know, stop for a second and think about what charges you up the most. Do you want to be on the stage,...

I still don’t know much about directing a movie.

I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.

Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and...

I know what it’s like to be in the closet! I know what it’s like to be bullied and attacked because someone or some group thought I was different or below them… so, I’m coming...

The greatest part of the job was… that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.

‘Broadway Bound’ is near and dear to my heart, as it was one of my happiest times on Broadway.

When CNN does a story and then says, ‘Tweet us what you think’ – why? Why does it matter what I think? Why should my thoughts be broadcast on a national news program? It’s enough...

I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.

I’m actually one of the more reluctant celebrities you will ever meet.

One of the reasons I love acting is because I’m so interested in other people’s lives, and I often incorporate things I hear or observe into my work. I’ve become a bit of a ‘person...

The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.

The necessity for ‘professionals’ in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.

I’m always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.

But I didn’t know much about directing a movie.

You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped – kind of stuck in the ’50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.

Comedy works best when people recognise themselves.

I’m not a director to make an action or horror film. That’s not for me.

Really, the golden egg of doing a series is that you cross that very stupid bridge that says ‘Name Actors Only’ in casting sessions. All of a sudden, you become a name actor; it gives...

Usually, characters that are doing something nefarious have some extra layers to them. The general rule is bad people don’t necessarily think they are bad.

The pilot of ‘Seinfeld’ was made and dropped. ‘Seinfeld’ was not supposed to go to series.

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son’s school overcome a learning disability.

Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody’s pressing comedy albums anymore.

I do think that the days of gathering around a television set that functions merely as a television set, to receive a live broadcast of some networked programming, those days are probably numbered.

I am hard-core middle class.

If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.

The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don’t need them to know about you – you need them to know about your work.

I cannot tell people who are struggling that I come first. I just cannot.

Theater is very much the world I’d like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.

Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.

Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.

I had gone to the doctor. The doctor said, ‘You’re healthy as a horse. You’ve got two weight problems – two health problems because of your weight. Please do something.’

I think with challenge comes a little more fun.

Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No.

The Middle East is a very difficult stage to play upon. Without doubt, it is a good drama. And on occasion, there are situations so unimaginable, if not ludicrous, as to make them almost comic....