To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.
Gentlemen, start your egos!
When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.
Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.
I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.
That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.
My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.
I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.
Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
