I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone.

I'll quit coffee. It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used to it. It'll still be the best part of waking up.

I like to take chances, and that's the key to comedy -- dancing like an idiot but doing it with wild abandon.

That's what I like to do: bring out the best in people.

That's the key to comedy: allowing yourself to look stupid

I've been going to the same grocery store for 13 years, and all of a sudden one day everybody was like, 'Oh, my God.

Nobody's ever kept their sitcom character going after the show's off the air.

Many of the people I've worked with over the years came from a sketch-comedy background or an improv background, and I've learned a lot from them.

Fac quod faciendum est, ' " Jo read aloud. "Do what must be done.

In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman

There's nothing like a nice piece of hickory.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

We never really own a dog as much as she owns us.

If Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign were part of the establishment, that would be time for all of us to just quit having to work so hard and defend it and fight for it.

The greatest adventure that can happen to a human being is the movement from mind to no-mind, the movement from personality to individuality. The no-mind has an individuality: the mind is social.

The most prepared are the most dedicated.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.