I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

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.

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

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 guess what's most important is that we chose to live with our hearts open and to let our experiences show us the way towards our brightest days.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

I don't have many deal breakers. I've done so much in my life, it doesn't feel right to judge other people.

Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.

I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.

When I dress up for events, I prefer Marc Jacobs and Dior. But I dream about wearing Chanel one day.

There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.