My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

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.

We ought to walk in the bright light.

Aging is tedious, but it is the only way to live long.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession.

Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.

The hindrances to being psychic are a general dullness that develops from living in the material world, and being a material girl.

Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?

Our confidence...is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.

God is beautiful and He loves beauty.

It often happens to children - and sometimes to gardeners - that they are given gifts of value of which they do not perceive until much later.