It's more interesting to put yourself in the place of Bette Davis than Irene Dunne, I guess.

There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the idea, "Wouldn't it be fun to be, say, Jean Harlow in a pre-code movie?"

I wish somebody would just give me a couple of million dollars a year, so that I could do a play based on every little fantasy I have.

I was very briefly under contract to Disney Animation, to develop ideas for animated features. They don't like you to use the word "cartoon" around there.

I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old.

I always tend to say "no" to everything, but now I've decided to say "yes" to everything. Now, I'm doing all sorts of things that I would've said "no" to before.

I don't think I could ever go to Auschwitz, because when we took that tour of MGM, I nearly collapsed outside the Thalberg building.

I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for [Stephen] Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics.

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

I grew up with "Follies." I saw it when I was fifteen. It was the original production, and of course, that production will never be equaled.

I stole that from Vito Russo. He said he was a devout believer in Judyism.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

God, that Anthony Jeselnik Show sounds really funny.

There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.

I think that the existence of Beethoven is remarkable, but I do not bristle at the suggestion that this event had a low probability given the initial state of the universe.

To be psychic is to see without the senses and to keep the thoughts and emotions of others out of your awareness.

Revenge is fruitless.

Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

I've always loved a challenge.

Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!