I find when somebody says to me, 'I'm going to motivate you,' more often than not, they're not going to get me.

I have no illusions about having another 'Seinfeld' in my life.

Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.

I cannot tell people who are struggling that I come first. I just cannot.

The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.

Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.

I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee.

Comedy works best when people recognise themselves.

I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.

I've gotten a lot of compliments on the 'Criminal Minds' guy. I guess it's because the look of that character is so different from what people expect of me.

I think with challenge comes a little more fun.

Isn't it time you came out and told the world what you believe?

I know what it's like to be in the closet! I know what it's like to be bullied and attacked because someone or some group thought I was different or below them... so, I'm coming out of the closet as an ally of equality for everyone; as an ally to hope.

I kept being asked by corporations to do corporate gigs. And I said, 'I don't have anything. I'm not a stand-up. You want me to come sing show tunes for you? I don't think so.'

Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'

I had gone to the doctor. The doctor said, 'You're healthy as a horse. You've got two weight problems - two health problems because of your weight. Please do something.'

I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.

The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.

But I didn't know much about directing a movie.

The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.

I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.