I love performing; I’d like to keep performing forever because I love it, but it’s not necessarily because I’m in need of the attention. I love that connection with the audience, I love the struggle, I love traveling, I love putting myself into situations that are hard and challenging—and I just get bored. I’m a Gemini, and I just get bored, and I’ve got to keep recreating and going out there and doing the shit, so…

MS: You co-starred (and were awarded Best Supporting Actress by the National Society of Film Critics) with Robert DeNiro and Jerry Lewis in the 1983 Martin Scorsese film The King of Comedy, which recently earned the honor of closing the Tribeca Film Festival. Besides Lewis’ frequently repeated sentiment that women are simply not funny, you’ve said in the past that he wasn’t nice to you during the filming, and at the film festival’s post-screening discussion, he was a dick about you again. Did you see the video?

SB: I couldn’t watch it. I saw Jerry a few years ago at his Friar’s Club Roast, when he was really sick and he was so nice that day, and he was like [in Jerry Lewis voice], “I heard you did a great show. I wish I could’ve been there,” but I think he thought he was dying so he was vulnerable. So when this happened, I was like,  ‘Oh my god, Jerry. You were so nice six, seven years ago. Why are you being such a prick again?’ And people were like, ‘Do you wanna respond? Do you wanna give any sort of an answer?’ and I was like, ‘I don’t wanna get into a pissing contest with Jerry Lewis.’