And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.

I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.

I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.

I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.

Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.

Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.

I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.

My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.

I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.

Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.

Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.

If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.

I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.

I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.

I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.

People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

Once you wake up and smell the coffee its hard to go back to sleep.

Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.

It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent.

When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

Robert Altman's Nashville is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.

You amaze me. You're 229 years old and that's what you think is funny.

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.