Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.

The critics. When they're right, they're right for the wrong reasons. And they're usually wrong.

If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.

I try to be alert and available. I try to be available for life to happen to me.

There are a lot of actors that are more talented than me at Second City who quit it before they even got to a paying status. Weird luck. I had no other option.

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.

Like: 'Don't walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there's somethin' in there you're going to bring out.' You gotta commit. You've gotta go out there and improvise and you've gotta be completely unafraid to die. You've got to be able to take a chance to die. And you have to die lots. You have to die all the time.