Richard Kind

I need affirmation all the time.

It's why I like live theater.

Even if it's a drama, I can feel the audience listening to me, liking me.

And I'm an empty urn.

There's no bottom to the urn of love that I need.

That is lack of confidence.

And yet my ego says, go out and do it and do it and do it louder than everybody else.

who I am.

I'm oversized in my voice.

I'm loud in my opinions.

When I'm opinionated, I'm really loud.

And even my acting.

A funny line that my friend Craig Bierko said in a toast once, he goes, the astronauts were up in space and they saw two things, the Great Wall of China and every acting choice Richard Kind ever made.

It's so funny.

It's so funny.

Is it how I chose to live my life?

No, I wouldn't choose it, but it's what I'm saddled with.

Terry, nobody tells a joke better than I do.

Sure.

So this mother is making her teenage son's bed, and she's tucking in the sheets, and she reaches underneath, and she pulls out a magazine of bondage, of, like, handcuffs and whips, and she goes, oh, my God.