Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air we breathe. If you must go into the arts, go into them for yourself alone. On some basic level you must enjoy the act of doing it ... Otherwise, you are going to end up frustrated and unhappy. Recognition in the arts is luck and gravy.

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

You know you're getting old when you buy a sexy sheer nightgown and don't know anyone who can see through it.

Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're going to be all right in life.

Omaha is a little like Newark, without Newark's glamour.

All babies look like Renée Zellweger pushed against a glass window.

If you can't make fun of yourself, you don't have any right to make fun of others