A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.

If you have wonderful moments, don't second-guess them, just enjoy them.

The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

I still do live concerts all over the country - about four a month - with singing and characters and improv. It keeps me limber. I'll never lose that. And comedy is still the bread and butter.

What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.

Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are.

I just don't have a tremendously strong belief that relationships can work. I'm really quite convinced that they don't. And if they do, it's really quite terribly brief and sporadic.

When you pray to God asking for something, make sure you are asking for the things that are driven by love and passion rather than the ones that are pushed by hate and anger.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.

When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!

If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse, it's only a step to modifying a higher animal, even man.

All is foreseen but the choice is given.

Turkey will "inevitably" join the EU in our lifetime unless we vote to leave.