You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

I was being laughed at. I hated it, so I made an adjustment to control the situation. All comics learn that.

The straight man has the best part. He gets to be in the show and see it, too.

Lonesome Rhodes had wild mood swings. He'd be very happy, he'd be very said, he'd be very angry, very depressed, and I had to pull all of these emotions out of myself. And it wasn't easy.

I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.

I'd hate to lose the character actress part of me, because, by God, the parts are much more interesting.