The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

I'm a huge animal lover - I love animals to death. I've got tortoises and three dogs, and I've had a million animals in the past. I just think that we should do all we can to take care of them.

If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they're not going to believe it, and #B, they're going to invest their time in other things anyway.