I love documentaries, I like observing real people.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

As soon as you find the key to success, somebody always changes the lock.

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do

I think serial monogamy says it all.

Names are powerful and are prophecies of the future. The name you are called is a sign of what you are and what you would become.

He trailed through hallways, ducking under arms no longer there, excusing himself as he pressed through conversations long since ended.

Envy is human nature.

I know whatever my father did, in his own way, he still loved me.

One of the big challenges now is to figure out just how many viruses there really are in the human genome. So far the estimate is 8.3% of our genome is virus, but it actually could be a lot higher.

I feel responsible for Johnny Ray's success. See many years ago I asked him to be on my show and he asked for a lot of money and I cried. And he stole that from me.

You'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it; I find it trivial and banal and boring.

Luck always plays a part for everyone, whether they want to admit it or not. I was very lucky, and I know it.

My wife is a real Puritan. She thinks licking the stamp on the envelope of a Valentine is foreplay.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.