Outside of performing, (a comedian) is someone who is analyzing life, thinking about it and trying to be observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel on the outside looking in.

Many comedians - both male and female - do have an "I will never date another comedian" rule.

The best advice I've gotten in terms of that was someone who said, "People will surprise you if you let them."

I think you can make good things happen if you look for them. Life is a very positive thing.

I'm just trying to do my part before I get hit by a bus.

The whole romanticized sad clown thing, we have to get rid of that. That has to go. That's just getting sick people to voluntarily stay sicker and sadder than they have to be.

If people tell me something is impossible, I just want to prove that. I want to know that that's for certain. I don't want to not do something because someone says I can't.

Mania is fun. I won't lie, it's fun. But it's usually followed by a soul-crushing depression.

I just like testing myself. I just have that thing in me. Whatever it is that people tell me I can't do, I've gotta try it.

Suicide - when I think of it, to me it means someone had a lot of problems and they couldn't fight through them anymore. That's not cowardly. It's sad and nothing but.

If you are a New York comedian who knows how to improvise and has glasses, you're going to start getting commercials.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave

I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.

Texas is dicktown. No basement in the alamo. I didnt capitalize that on purpose.

Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems.

I wished to be loved by another. But I desire no man's pity.

Another way to lose control is to ignore something when you should address it.

The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.

Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie,' is as funny as it gets.

It is rare, I think, for parents to let their children -- of any age -- grow up and become peers.

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.