Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.

I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?

I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.

Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

I wouldn't live with me, believe me. I'm moody.

I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.

I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.

I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.

I won't do reality. That is done. And I don't want people following me around with a camera 24 hours a day.

It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted.

The day we serve humanity, as we serve our mothers, we shall find Allah.

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway, " the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.

Even Damocles developed a routine.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Hello! The world is a mess!

One of my first gigs was as a guest star, and I was supposed to be a big imposing character.

Success tends to bless those who are most committed to giving it the most attention.

We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.