You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.

There's something exciting about being afraid.

I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.

I don't wear a wig. I'd feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so 'Actors Studio'-ish, but I like to feel it's me out there.

Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.

I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.

I don't know what the hell I'm doing up there half the time. These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what technique means. But I do know what experience is. I know in my gut when I've done a scene right.