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

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?

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.

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

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 is my salvation.

The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine, " and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

Anxiety is a deep conscious breath away from dissolving.

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!