Nobody can hide their birthdays anymore, so there's no point in lying.

Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.

Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?

I don't think comedy is something you learn. I think it's something that's either there or it's not.

My daughter, I'm proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but she has not fired me.

I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money.

When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.

God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.

If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.

Changing schools and friends is hard on children and can often make them desperate and lonely enough to form closer ties with a sibling.

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.