What is your greatest fear?

Jerry Stiller without Anne Meara.

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

To continue to perform.

What is your favorite occupation?

Getting paid to act.

What is your most marked characteristic?

Hollering at George Costanza.

What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Marriage and raising a family while having a career.

Which historical figure do you most identify with?

Eddie Cantor. He made people laugh during the Depression.

Which living person do you most admire?

Chuck Feeney, who gave away millions anonymously.

Who is your hero in real life?

Barbara Buloff, my therapist.

Who is your favorite hero of fiction?

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Which living person do you most despise?

I'm working on it.

What is your greatest extravagance?

Overtipping the people who love my work.

What is your favorite journey?

Jerusalem. Where it all began.

What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

Saintliness.

On what occasion do you lie?

When telling someone the truth is too painful.

What do you dislike most about your appearance?

No space between my pelvis and floating rib. It's lowered my height.

Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

"Fill me in."

What is your greatest regret?

My mother not seeing my marriage work out and my mother never seeing her grandkids.

When and where were you happiest?

At a screening of Seize the Day in the 80s.

What is your most treasured possession?

My memory.

Where would you like to live?

Where I am right now, but on a higher floor.

What do you most value in your friends?

That they don't take me seriously.

How would you like to die?

Not onstage. It would ruin the show.

If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?

A whale.

If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be?

Myself, without baggage.

What is your motto?

Qui s'excuse s'accuse. (He who excuses himself accuses himself.)