Any form of complacency is the kiss of death for any professional.

to maintain success, stamina is more important than talent. You have to learn to be a marathon runner.

I've learned from doing my own show with Fox that people are not your partners if they're signing the checks. Whoever signs your paycheck is the boss - no matter what they tell you.

What we do is a calling...we make people happy.

The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are 'age appropriate.' For me that would be a shroud.

The worst thing that ever happened to me on stage is someone ran forward to tell me they loved me and projectile vomited all over the stage. It was horrible.

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.