I come from the place of thinking, 'Whatever works for people' - and if you haven't been exposed to anything else, you really don't know better.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

Whatever the situation at hand, thats what Im dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.

As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my house, it's hard for me to relax. I'm too obsessed with whether everyone's having a good time.

In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.

I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women who are good at doing comedies, as well as dramas.

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.

I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as well as drama.

I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.

I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.

Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.

If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.

It's tricky with monologues, and I never like to use that word. Like I told the actors, you are talking to somebody; there is no such thing as a monologue.

I don't give a damn how you feel about me, I sip lean pure codeine and I don't give a damn what you say about me.

Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.

In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.