I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!

The three words every woman really longs to hear: I'll clean up.

If it's not happening, write your own thing!

I think that being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.

Nobody knows how long you're going to have life on Earth, so you really have to work at being joyous and happy.

There's so much to watch, I can't even keep up.

I want to do something I feel like I can do.

Sometimes a fan comes up to me, and I'm really interested in how they're acting, so I'll study them and use that in my material.

I'm healthy, I have beautiful children and a beautiful life. I don't want to go toward negative stuff because I'm scared.

You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.

I do make a conscious effort to not repeat old patterns, instead of being like, But they don't want me! I haven't always been that way.

I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.

Don't wallow in failure. Instead, learn from it.

Before they read words, children are reading pictures.

I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.

Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.

As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

The gaze that sees is the gaze that dominates.

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.