I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness.

I'm married but the special man is my dog, Henry.

Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.

I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

It's fun to watch a true-blue movie star at work. They're really unbelievably charismatic. They understand camera angles.

Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.

You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

I like playing the same person over and over again. I've done shows for over a year on Broadway, and I never get bored.

There are different kinds of actors, and movie actors tend to be exceedingly precise and mechanical in a way that's really admirable for me to watch. You always learn from them.

When nothing goes right, you have to face forward and take it on head first.

Everyone know is, soul does it or it doesn't exist it really doesn't matter. What does it matter is that you will die soon and you will be out of the Matrix!

My mind feels like a beehive without the buzz.

Freedom is the brevity to resist detrimental act.

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.

Do not be distracted from what we face.

I think it's very much a matter between Barbara Walters and ABC.