I like getting up in front of an audience. It`s fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can`t deny it. And it`s very funny, too. Sometimes you`re shy; you go somewhere and everyone`s looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.

At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame -- but you shouldn`t take it for granted.

"I did Harvey Fierstein. He didn`t like it. He came in to the show to complain about it. His point was that he was getting more famous as me than as him....He came in to talk about it and, watching him, I realized that I was doing him quite well. He thought I was doing a gay stereotype." - about his portrayal of Harvey Fierstein on "Saturday Night Live" (1975), and Fierstein`s response to it.

(To Conan O`Brien) "I heard you call me immature earlier. Well, you`re just a big poop-head".