I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

Never do nothing you wouldnt want printed on the front page of The New York Times.

If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

A leader inspires others to dream more. The actions of a really good leader will show how to achieve that dream.

Sanity is for the weak

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.

I drape a lot. I cut. I have to touch. For me, it's almost impossible to start without that.

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

It doesn't matter how old you are, there is a little child within who needs love and acceptance.

I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide.