I have one last request. Don't use embalming fluid on me; I want to be stuffed with crab meat.

The prettiest women are almost always the most boring, and that is why some people feel there is no God.

I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.

Those who can't do, teach. And those who can't teach, teach gym.

When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world. So you get a lot of things wrong and make a lot of mistakes and make a lot of bad choices.

I could turn on my radio in the morning when I was getting dressed for school and hear Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman and think this is the music. Now that music is art. Ellington is art. At that time it was just what you heard on the radio. Cole Porter was just a guy who wrote pretty songs and Billie Holliday would sing them.

I wish my parents had raised me in Manhattan because I think it's the greatest thing you can do for a kid is to raise them in New York City. I can see this with my own children.