If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.

Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.

Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits.

It's acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they're considered aggressive and opinionated.

I can't even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work but it ain't easy.

Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.

My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.

Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

When distrust is so profound that it makes you wary of every word dripping from honeyed lips...It sharpens your instincts...Now for a woman, THAT is a powerful weapon...

Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.

He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.

I will always do what I want to do and I won't go with the crowd.

The world is always full of promise.

When you're an actor, you show up and it's wonderful because you're in the world of make-believe.

Whoever we love, she or he is always under the bright spotlight on our stage and anything else is just a decor under the dimness!