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

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

If I see a great performance on television, onstage, in the movies, I go to work the next day with a renewed energy and less fear. These great artists take me out of my life and make me want to go there.

I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.

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.

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

All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff.

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working.

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

Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.

I just serve others through entertaining. That's when I am happy.

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.

All you have to do is say, 'I'm going home,' and you're the most popular girl at the party.

My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting.

I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.

I don't want to see my family all the time, and they're delighted, I'm sure, to be aware of that.

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.

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 certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.

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

There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

I think being boring is just the worst sin of all time.