I don't want to go around making everyone else agree with me. I don't feel the need to do that.

If things don't come easy to you, you have to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

I like the fact that people come together who have shared values, but I don't believe that a man died 2,000 years ago and was crucified on a cross to save me from my original sin.

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

Yeah, all drama teachers are very effusive, very demonstrative, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical.

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

I do like to make people cringe. That discomfort, tension, embarrassment, pain - all of those things interest me, and not through some sort of masochistic or sadistic impulse. It illuminates what being a human being is. It taps into what it is to be human more incisively than stuff that's just very pedestrian.