I'm not a comedienne. I'm an actress.

I guess I don't believe that death is the end.

I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.

Ive worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. Im past the point where I worry about people liking me.

I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.

I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.

I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.

The sleeper turns his back on everyone.

The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.

You never run into a fundamentalist Christian as intolerant of - take anything, you know, homosexuality as a liberal who has just found a lit cigarette in a nonsmoking section.

The most important thing to do for me physiologically is to sleep when I'm tired. I love to sleep and it's very restorative.

There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.

I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal.

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position

I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, "What's funny about it?"