I just want to work hard. I love that feeling.

There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist

Don't be snarky, but don't be saccharine. Don't pander, but don't shut people out. Go straight down the line with the performance.

I'd like to be in a tiny indie where I'm lost at sea.

I always just wanted to be a movie actress, like Lily Tomlin or Ruth Gordon. I just imagined myself being in a movie, wearing stylish women's clothing the way I saw Amy Irving wearing it.

Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.

I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.

I think my comedic style is at once bashful and explosive. It's a little bit perverted, and a little bit ladylike and old-fashioned, which is a great mix. Sort of tangy.

I'm competitive and I have a messy purse, but otherwise, I like people to think I'm a winner.

I don’t think men have time to be funny because they have to make all of our rules about what we can do with our vaginas.

Although I do stand-up - doing actual stage work is terrifying for me.

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.

I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.

To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.

I like going to schools and telling classes that when I was a child, I failed every "will this kid become a writer" test.

As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty.

If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become.

But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

I'm always in these situations where I forget to separate what is pitched as an idea to the fact that I'm actually going to have to execute it.