I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.

I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.

Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

People who can dance and sing are often very good at comedy.

That's how I relax. I love singing with my castmates.

Love = Living Onwardly Victoriously Eternally

To stand by the beds at sunrise and see the flowers awake is a heavenly delight.

Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation.

I hate working with artists who don't have something to say or when they have something that sounds cool but isn't really them.

Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.

My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'

Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.