I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.

Despite what The Wall Street Journal says, our awards are the best-kept secret in America, with the possible exception of what George W. Bush did in the '70s.

I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.

I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be.

I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach - Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of early days in films, he put Laurel with Hardy, he created the Our Gang kids, and all these silent movies he did - he was a giant.

We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. ... I wanted to sort of stop and yell at them, "What's so funny? What's the matter with you people? Grow up!" It made me very self-conscious at times.

Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.