You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

I don't use computers... I'm someone who needs to see the page right away in my hand.

A lot of your personality is formed before you're 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my childhood. The more mature plays are affected only by my adult experiences.

I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other.

How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.