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

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.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.