“I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater.”

And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won’t last.

She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

You have to transmit to them what its like being in the theater.

A theater without beer is just a museum

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.

The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty … for a slice of real life, there’s always the Kessler.

Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field.

My first wife was a theater person.