My movie career - if such a thing even exists - is laughable.
There's something about it that makes sense, Lent. You give something up, and everything's more joyful.
I'm loaded with talent.
You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.
I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.
New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'
I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working.
Quite frankly I don't know how to be happy. I have not a clue.
If I see a great performance on television, onstage, in the movies, I go to work the next day with a renewed energy and less fear. These great artists take me out of my life and make me want to go there.
If I see someone saying the rosary in the wings, I know they've got talent.
Talent is seductive.
My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting.
I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.
I don't wear a wig. I'd feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so 'Actors Studio'-ish, but I like to feel it's me out there.