I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.

I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.

And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.

One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.

I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.

Actors were the first people to accept me.

I'm sure there are people who think I only do music, people who think I only do theater, and people who think I only do dramatic stuff. I do things that interest me.

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.

I have become my own father.

I found Mick Jagger... very bright. I always liked him very much and still do.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what we are doing

Instead of assuming and jumping into conclusions, stop for a moment and think. "Is this really true or am I making it up?".Don't believe your racing thoughts.

Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something.

You cannot keep something down that is bound to rise.

Stand-up was interesting to me at the beginning, because I was trying to parody it. My early stand-up was really Andy Kaufman-esque, and then I became the very thing I was making fun of.

If you look deeply inside them you'll only see eternity; whereas with most human beings, when you look inside, you'll see all kinds of different things.

A star can win any game; a team can win every game.

That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there.

My mind may be American but my heart is British.