Quotes from Judge Reinhold

My first sex scene - and it was with myself.

My first car was a '63 Chevy station wagon that I called Ramona, because that's the sound it made. 'Farm Use' was painted on the back. It was right off the set of 'Hee Haw.'

I still enjoy a lot of support from the black community.

Personally, I feel that if you shoot off 200,000 rounds, and your lead character pulls out a pistol and never gets hit, there's a sense of jeopardy that's lost. It becomes a little less exciting when things don't make sense.

When I was a kid growing up, I liked the sympathetic characters played by Alan Arkin, Jack Lemmon, and James Stewart. They were my heroes. No matter what happened to them, they survived with their dignity intact.

I haven't always played nice guys. In 'Gremlins,' I was a conceited, pompous braggart, and I was a redneck chauvinist in the TV movie 'A Matter of Sex.' But I really prefer sympathetic roles.

The only people in my whole life that have ever called me Edward are the police because it's on my license.

In my movies, I portray this 'Everyman' persona, someone everybody can empathize with. People can identify with a guy like me.

I was welcomed into some nightclubs in Chicago that no white man's ever been in.

The '80s was a great decade for comedy.

I walked on eggshells a lot. I have a bad self-esteem problem, and my father probably facilitated it. He once looked at me very seriously when I was about 15 and had whipped cream smeared all over myself. He said, 'You'd do anything for a laugh, wouldn't you?'

The day before 'Beverly Hills Cop' opened, I was at a branch of my bank, and the teller asked me for two pieces of identification. Four days after it opened, I was being waved to on the freeway.

I remember once they sent me over to read for a show called 'Mork and Mindy.' I heard gales of laughter, then Robin Williams walked out. I had to follow Robin Williams.

People are real quick to jump at the easiest way to define you.

If I get to tell good stories with good people, that's good enough for me.

You have to tell a good story first. If it's a good story, people will be interested. It doesn't matter about the content.

My first time in front of a camera, I said, 'Wonder Woman, I'm so glad you're here.' That's how I made a living.

Before 'Animal House' came out to open up a huge market, there just weren't parts for young guys. That genre of film was my ticket in... One of my first jobs was with Bill Murray in 'Stripes.'

I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.

The message I always received was God is good. You're bad. Try harder. I pretty much kept my hand up at anything that represented God.

'Harvey' continues to be both a charming and hilarious play.

I want to do things of significance, things that will inspire people to know how good life can be.

I'm not really crazy about broad comedy. I like very possible, real situations that you might have found yourself in.

I was pulling in $80 a week after taxes working in a frozen yogurt store.