Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool.

You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'

I like comedy as a group sport.

I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.

I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I’m African American but that doesn’t include the other half of me.

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

When I first moved to New York, someone who thought they knew more than I did said: "You have to always look like you know where you're going when you get out of the subway."

I'm always learning when I'm surrounded by great people. In every experience, I feel like I'm learning. I'm not like, "Oh good. I'm done! I don't have to learn anymore."

I like being a funny lady. I think theres nothing sexier than a funny lady.

The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.

Smile and be beautiful and kind like a flower.

The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.

Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.

If I'm not good at acting, I'm not good at anything else.

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.

Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.

In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

If your enemy is superior, evade him

Let the Hunger Games Begin!

What is really nice about the Health Impact Fund is that it is a win-win, something that without much cost to anyone makes a lot of people better off.