New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.

Youre welcome to take a bath. You look like the second week of the garbage strike.

It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.

The best protection any woman can have is courage.

Happiness is having a dream you cannot let go of and a partner who would never ask you to.

I run like an electric golf cart. Now I look at eating as a way to feed my body and keep me younger. It's not about starving your body, but treating your body like a Ferrari. You don't put in the crappiest gas you can find. You use supreme. In the long term, you'll run clean.

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.

I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.

The ability for employment benefits to be shared among spouses, the ability to move people who are dependent on visas for trailing spouses, all hinges on being able to deal with families of gay people in the same way that you deal with families of straight people. Otherwise, they can't move around.

All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means.

Sometimes, as an actor, you're so deeply immersed in a part that you lose control of it. If you're really lucky, a few times in your life it'll take you somewhere you never expected to go. It really blows the top off your understanding of your craft.

Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.

The quickness and flexibility of a well mind a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen.

There are some individuals who look at graphic novels as 'canon,' and they cannot change in any way, shape or form, and that's what makes them in some ways good fans.

We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.

I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.

With laughter or love, the more you give the more you'll receive.

I have the highest regard for Meryl Streep as an actress and think she's a fabulous person as well.

The most desirable and appropriate solution to piracy is for the United States government to provide protection through military escorts and/or militant detachments aboard U.S. vessels.

I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.

Being one of the few African American women to make it to this level in a classical ballet company, the level of American Ballet Theatre, takes a lot of perseverance.

You only know what you know.

He loses his thanks who promises and delays.