My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.

If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.

There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about.

The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.

The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.