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"I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny."
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"I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left."

"Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them."

"What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade."

"I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important."
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"My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized."

"I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations."

"I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace."

"David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny."

"I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge."
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