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New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Talent is very dangerous. It alienates people.

I'm a good acting partner for me... when I don't have anyone else, I do really well!

The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?

I could have made a lot of money doing 'Golden Girls,' and I would have been good. But the image of it! And for me to work with Betty White every day would be like taking cyanide.

When the hospital sends for me, when the ambulance comes and I ease my way out of the world, I'd rather be in Detroit, Michigan, than Lenox Hill.

I love holidays in New York. I love 'em. I want to celebrate something all the time, and New York has holidays for every day of the week, practically. I like holidays in New York City.

I love Birmingham, Michigan. It's lovely - you know, it's very similar to the Hamptons.

Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.

When I'm playing comedy, it is such a crap shoot of what will work and what won't.

My movie career - if such a thing even exists - is laughable.

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.

I think it's the wrong way around to say, 'When you get older move to the country.' I think when you get older you move to New York.

I think being boring is just the worst sin of all time.

There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.

Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent schools are breeding grounds for great broads and occasionally one-of-the-boys. Convent schools teach you to play against everything, which is what I'm still doing.

I'm funny when I want to be. And I'm even funny when I don't want to be.

I like being talked about. I think some people really don't... because they're secure enough and they don't need that.

I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'

When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly.