I like writing better. Because I don’t have to wear makeup, I don’t have to be thin, and I don’t have to remember lines.

I did do acupuncture, which helped me a lot to reduce the internal inflammation.

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that’s really about it.

I’m very involved in the writing on every level.

I don’t go to places where I’m going to get mobbed.

I definitely do support The American Cancer Foundation, as well as a myriad of other cancer groups and hospitals.

I’ve gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

Know before whom thou stands. Understand your friends for who they are, not who you wish them to be. Accept them for their flaws as well as their attributes. Turn to them for their strengths,...

My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.

I’ve lived three lifetimes in my short time.

If we don’t empower ourselves with knowledge, then we’re gonna be led down a garden path.

I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I’ll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.

I had uterine cancer, which is the most under-funded and under-researched of all the female cancers.

I’m very committed to changing legislation to broaden the scope of women’s health care but, at the same time, I want to live my life to the fullest.

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.

I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.

I have a hang-up thinking I have to be everyone?s caretaker and no-one can deal except me.

And remember, it’s also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

People lived in the same apartments for years. You’d meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you’d still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.

Surgery is half the race, but you have to go for the follow-up or do yourself a major disservice.

I made an audio tape of my book, which I think is really excellent, although it’s an abridged version of the book.

We had to do a radical hysterectomy.

You know, I felt very vulnerable.

I definitely have a Queens identity, and that’s what I’m preserving in this show.

Since my illness, I’ve felt the presence of my angels.

Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it’s hard to go back to sleep.

I have no idea why this decision was made, and I have much regret that the audience that supported us all these years will be shortchanged.

Romano Wasn’t Cool At School

Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.

I had to do something with this voice. And don’t expect that to change!

Ray was not even cool back in those days. He wasn’t popular, he wasn’t cool. It’s so funny, and now he’s like so popular and everything

I’ve lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.

However, since the anthrax scare, the studio has prohibited all fan mail and I no longer receive it for the time being.

The thing about Fran Fine is she’ll always be the flashy girl from Flushing.

Life is precious and there’s not a lot of room for anger.

There’s so much we’re not getting as part of our regular health care.

If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.

I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

But ultimately I think that you need to go to either New York for theater or Los Angeles for television and movies.

The accent is mine!

Though I’m not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.

I read for the part of Elizabeth, the virgin queen. I thought they said they were looking for a virgin from Queens. Whatever, the only virgin in my house is the olive oil.

I had stage one uterine cancer, and after my surgery it was considered 95 per cent non-recurring.

I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed...