It seems to me that whatever path you choose to take, in the end its up to each of us to try, test and live what we find out, to apply it and see what actually works, and that's the exciting and challenging part of this very real adventure.

You might get one job for having a famous parent, but you won't get your second unless you're good.

In the end, it's your job to own the role, and in the end, you are playing certain aspects of your own self, even.

I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately I was looking for something that was not tied to tradition.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do.

I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.