I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

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.

... the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril,

It is with our voices we remember, with our ears we understand.

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

The game got these old handprints on it, but Imma be the one to pour cement on it.

The president should not be able to make me or you ever worried about what's going to happen in our personal life.

Any man can be 62, but it takes a bus to be 62A.

A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.