"The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded."

"I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make."

"I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor."

"I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made."

"I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid they told me I was being funny."

"It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway."

"My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony."

"As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic."