A piece of advice I would give to young actors - hang on to your family, and hang on to your reality - and hang on to your "real". Because you're going into the land of make believe.

Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

I guess the only way I could describe myself is someone that lives right in the present.

When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.