I Think Part Of My Reputation Has

Do What You Like To Do So Well That Someone Will Pay You Wages For It.

If You Play Mark Twain And He's Not Funny, You Are Definitely Not Playing Mark Twain. That Was The Biggest Challenge, In Some Ways. Writing And Performing Jokes That Can Come Out Of That Brilliant Delivery System He Constructed: The Friendly, Avuncular Truth-teller.

I Don't Think Of My Life As A Cliche, But I'm A Cliche Eccentric. Complete With A Strange Name - I Mean, Who's Named Val? How Many Vals Do You Know? I Mean, Really?

I Don't Make Any Pretense About Being Normal. I'm Not.

I Love That Bob Dylan Asked Me To Be In The First Movie He Wrote.