I certainly wish Gov. Palin no harm. I'd just like her to explain to me how she can hold such outrageous views...and then go back to Alaska.

I get happier every day. I have a sense of accomplishment every day of my life.

It's usually a spiritual thing that's preventing somebody from having happiness.

You reach a certain point in your 30s when you say things in a much safer way.

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.

I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and she goes, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I said, "A comedian." And she laughed and laughed because she thought that was the cutest, funniest thing.