Actress

I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy.

There's something that really frightens me - and that's fear.

I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.

You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.

There are a lot of things I do that I don't want to, but I have to. It's truly an emotional need for me to perform.

Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.

Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.

I like celebrities. I love people who are famous. Always have.

These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.

I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that.

I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Isn't this fantastic, what a star I am?

I loved being on Broadway, but performing has become exhausting, and I just don't want to live in New York anymore. I'm just sick of the competition in New York, the feeling that I always have to rehearse to keep up my performance. I don't feel like rehearsing, even though it should be my favorite thing in the world to do.

I like being talked about. I think some people really don't... because they're secure enough and they don't need that.

I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.

Honestly, this is a big thing to say, but I don't think I've ever been bored. If I even get an inkling of it, I split.

I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.

I love holidays in New York. I love 'em. I want to celebrate something all the time, and New York has holidays for every day of the week, practically. I like holidays in New York City.

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.