I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

Skies are crying, I am watching, Catching teardrops in my hands.Only silence, as it's ending, Like we never had a chance.Do you have to make me feelLike there's nothing left of me?

I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.

A lot of businesses would rather make an extra dollar than to save a soul. If greed isn't evil, what else would we call it?

You can't make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future.

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

I'm a song-and-dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.

You have to be willing to recognize failure.

If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.

Of course, without God, there is no value to life. That leads to immorality, that leads to sexual abuse, and there is no hope.