Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.

It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

It is so hard for us little human beings to accept this deal that we get. It's really crazy, isn't it? We get to live, then we have to die. ... What spirit human beings have! It is a pretty cheesy deal - all the pleasures of life, and then death.

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a light bulb.

I would say that Lucy, 'I Love Lucy,' she was my idol.