“Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.”

I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.

A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone’s scared to take a chance.

I am invisible in gay bars.

I like talking to a person who is crazy in a fun, eccentric way. I don’t want to talk to a legitimate crazy person, because that’s not nice.

The most outrageous thing happened years ago in my YouTube days, when I asked an older lady – it was like a sexually flavored question and she just slapped me full-on across the face. That’s the one time someone got physically aggressive with me. And it hurt.

It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.

I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.

What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.

I knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.

We weren’t, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.

I have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.

I spend the majority of my time in New York and LA. I feel like a large part of my following and my fans are probably in New York and LA because of the work that I do is very New York-LA-centric. So people do recognize me. But it’s nothing overwhelming at all.

Sometimes you go up to people who look totally normal and then you talk to them for a few seconds and you are like, Oh I better get out of this, because this person is a little mentally unbalanced, and they are not going to get a joke.

I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.

There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.

I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn’t get a paying job.

I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened of wearing a yellow star. It was fear, it was cowardice, I was.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It’s harder.

I don’t want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the other actors tiptoe away.

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn’t do just one thing.

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.