I won't do reality. That is done. And I don't want people following me around with a camera 24 hours a day.

I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?

I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.

Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.

I wouldn't live with me, believe me. I'm moody.

I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.

I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.

I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.

Laugh now, cry later.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

I've never been too worried about all the music critics and stuff.

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

Experience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not.

For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things that are not real. Sets and actors are not real.

Everywhere we go, Nancy makes the world a little better.