In America, they really do mythologize people when they die.

We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

I love to ride my bike, which is great aerobics, but also just a great time for me to think, so it's like this terrific double bill.

It's been a tough year. . . Someone said I should send out Buddhist thank-you cards since Buddhists believe that anything that challenges you makes you pull yourself together.

My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.

I've never had a "hankering" to direct. I can perform, but I can't write on that level. I tend to go off on tangents. Directing also requires a kind of specificity and I don't have it.

I learned that by being entertaining you make a connection with another person.