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.

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.

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

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.

We exist just to feel the joy of life.

At the fall, we became alienated not only from God and other people but also from ourselves.

I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.

After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.

There are fit men everywhere, so I'm working my way through them, one at a time!

What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?

It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

I'm not an expert in the sociological realities of all the pastors in the world, but I would say that there are some very, very positive things about the state of integrity in church leaders.

To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.