Actress

You have to really want it, and don't take it personally if you don't get a job. Because sometimes you're not the type. And sometimes it's somebody else's turn.

I loved the Kennedy Center Honors because you just sit there, smile, wave, and cry.

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

I eat very well, and I do Pilates.

I didn't really get comfortable until I got to UCLA, and I had to take an acting course because I was studying theater arts.

I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.

If I go to a party, I'm not one to be the funniest person in the room at all.

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

Just scream! You vent, and the body just feels good after a good old yell.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

I really enjoy connecting with the audience.

Because of YouTube, I'm getting fan mail from 10-year-olds and teenagers and college kids.

I'm like your mother, your sister, whatever.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has.

I think the reason I was successful is that I was never cynical.

I'm hooked on Glenn Close in 'Damages.'

On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing.

I have an iPhone, and I can text, and I can use the phone, and I can even take pictures with it.