I am shyer than most people think.

I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York.

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.

When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there's nothing more satisfying.

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.

The weddings that I've been in have been pretty mellow.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

I think no matter what kind of life you have, whether it looks one way to people or another way, you always have moments when you imagine a different life.

Do not allow your life to keep pouring out and reducing without converting it to tangible products.

The frightening thing is that, to enter hell, all one has to do is nothing.

No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction

Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.

Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit.

From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.

I think that a real film fan experience is about a kind of omnivorous experience.

Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.