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" I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it. "

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" 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. "

" Honestly, this is a big thing to say, but I don't think I've ever been bored. If I even get an inkling of it, I split. "

" Why haven't I made more movies? Nobody asked me. "

" Isn't this fantastic, what a star I am? "

" You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie. "

" All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff. "

" There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater. "

" What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes. "

" My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting. "

" All you have to do is say, 'I'm going home,' and you're the most popular girl at the party. "

" Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.' "

" I don't think I'm gonna die tomorrow or even two weeks from now, or even ever. I just don't know - who the hell knows what's gonna happen to them? Nobody! Isn't that comforting? Nobody has a clue. I like that we don't know. And I like that it's somebody else's decision, not mine. "

" I just serve others through entertaining. That's when I am happy. "

" I don't want to see my family all the time, and they're delighted, I'm sure, to be aware of that. "

" When the hospital sends for me, when the ambulance comes and I ease my way out of the world, I'd rather be in Detroit, Michigan, than Lenox Hill. "

" I loved being on Broadway, but performing has become exhausting, and I just don't want to live in New York anymore. I'm just sick of the competition in New York, the feeling that I always have to rehearse to keep up my performance. I don't feel like rehearsing, even though it should be my favorite thing in the world to do. "

" New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!' "

" I smoked, I drank, I did all the kicking my heels up type things, but I went to Mass on Sunday. "

" I like being talked about. I think some people really don't... because they're secure enough and they don't need that. "

" I think I have more humour in me than anger. But those two things are great bed-fellows, performance-wise. "

" You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures. "

" I'm funny when I want to be. And I'm even funny when I don't want to be. "

" I like glasses so I can go out without my makeup. Just grab your coat and get your hat and go. "

" When I'm playing comedy, it is such a crap shoot of what will work and what won't. "

" As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times. "

" For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there. "

" There were a lot of lyrics that I sang but didn't understand. But I had this facade in performance of looking like I wrote the book. "

" When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly. "

" I think taking care of yourself, health-wise, in every way, is a 100 percent winner. "