Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.

Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits.

It's acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they're considered aggressive and opinionated.

I can't even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work but it ain't easy.

If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.

Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.

My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.

What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.

Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.

A street where there are no children playing is a dead street!

Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.

Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.

Liberalism has become a special kind of stupid, and it's on full display now, which I think ultimately has the potential to be a good thing.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.