If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.

We [with Les Charles] started talking about hotel stories, and we found that a lot of the action was happening in the hotel bar. We actually thought of that while we were in a bar: "Why would anyone ever leave here?"

A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.

Always remember your kid's name.

Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.

You become more attractive when you love yourself. You ATTRACT the right things when you have a sense of who you are.

I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of, very cold.