My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.

What I like about that is it kind of puts you in your place. Don't count on being remembered. Just live now, you know?

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.

I drink red wine on ice to water it down.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Robert De Niro, even though I've been in two other movies with him, I never really got to know him at all. But on this movie ["The Big Wedding"] I did.