“There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?”

“I would rather have stayed in the theater and done comedy. Comedy in film (was) so narrow for women. I was much happier doing very black comedy onstage, and I could never find anything of that ilk on film. The closest to what I might have accomplished was `Working Girl.'”

“My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point.”

“Great comedy is great comedy only if it has an element of truth in it.”

“Man, when he realizes that he is an object of comedy, does not laugh.”

“Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.”

“It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.”

“Comedy is not pretty.”

“Remember, this a comedy.”

“Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.”