One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.

I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.

If you have wonderful moments, don't second-guess them, just enjoy them.

The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.

I still do live concerts all over the country - about four a month - with singing and characters and improv. It keeps me limber. I'll never lose that. And comedy is still the bread and butter.

What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.

When all that's left mediocrity and each day just bleeds into the next.

I once dressed up, very badly timed as Steve Irwin's daughter. And I didn't realize he had passed because I hadn't been following the news. I love Bindi Irwin, just the timing was in poor taste.

To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

Integration is nothing but your complete connection with your spirit.