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

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.

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.

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

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.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

The reason most preaching is ignored today is that it deserves to be.

A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration.

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.

Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.

The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.

It's what every writer needs: a daybed.