One of the downsides of being a poker pro is that people see exactly how you play.

There are always things that I'd love to do. As an actor, none of them are specific; all I'm looking for are things that are good quality, that are challenging for me to work on, and even better if I get to work with people that I respect and am excited to work with.

I have actually lost a couple of roles - film roles - because a director or producer thought I looked too much like George Costanza, and I could not get out of that box.

Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.

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

What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.

I do think that the days of gathering around a television set that functions merely as a television set, to receive a live broadcast of some networked programming, those days are probably numbered.

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

Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because the best actors see the material they're working on through blinders. They can't see anything but their role. I could never really do that.

The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.

Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.

I met the real George Steinbrenner on only one occasion when he actually came and played himself on an episode of 'Seinfeld.' He seemed to really enjoy himself. I did not get to know him, but the fact that he allowed himself and his beloved team to be satirized on our show is an indication to me of his true character.

Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.

The Middle East is a very difficult stage to play upon. Without doubt, it is a good drama. And on occasion, there are situations so unimaginable, if not ludicrous, as to make them almost comic. But the cast is constantly changing, the audience is often disengaged, and it seems at times that no one is actually running the show.

You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.

I still don't know much about directing a movie.

I guess the Reagan era is defined as the 'I want it all for me, and screw everybody else' era.

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.

The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.

I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.'

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

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.'

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

I think with challenge comes a little more fun.