Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.

Funny women are honest women.

If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.

What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.

In a show that has so many neurotic, broken beta characters, it's always fun to bring in a character who's really confident in themselves.

The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.

If women ran Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter would have a "Men in Entertainment" issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.

People want to put women in one box, and Im interested in how women can be everything at once.

I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster, but that turned out to be a lie.

I think they should create a holiday for friends-with-benefits relationships. Because I feel like Valentine's Day is, maybe it's a day to stay home and cry.

But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings, stand-up nights, improv. nights.

Can anyone actually find a replacement for a lost loved one?Isn't there a difference between things and human beings?

Mistakes are proof that you are trying.

I was told I have obsessive behavioral traits. I looked up everything to do with obsession after that.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.

In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.