'New Girl' is funny. I love Zooey Deschanel. She's the most charming thing around.

I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else, and I don't have great language, highfalutin' language - I'm very ordinary. So I figure if I write about myself, other people with similar feelings and experiences would go, 'Oh, that's me.'

I've done everything I've wanted to do. I have three children, I have grandchildren, I have books, I did movies, I've directed movies; I've done almost everything I've wanted to do.

I love tweeting.

I've seen the invention of television and performed on television even before my family owned one.

You can get the best out of people if they're happy and not worried or not frightened that they're going to make a mistake.

I need to see a woman president in my lifetime. Or the first Jewish president.

Anybody who tells a very big lie is paid attention to. If you say, 'Shakespeare could not write. He was illiterate,' everybody says, 'Well, what do you know that we don't?' That's what Trump does all the time.

People ask me where I get my vitality, and to tell you the truth, I don't have a clue.

I wrote three books about growing up in the Bronx.