I'm glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it's much more satisfying - I love acting and I still do, but it's much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff.

I've never been to a class reunion or anything because I'm always afraid of that one - there's going to be some 'Carrie'-like incident.

Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is.

Man up and add a tux to your wardrobe. Just find one you like and get it well-tailored to your own measurements.

The biggest thing I’ve heard for the last four months is, ‘Thanks for ruining my childhood’.

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.

I'm more of a science head, so I was like, how would a guy use - if there were ghosts - technology to bring them back?

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

It has been my personal experience that the government engages in a wide range of frauds with the common people.

Whenever she walked along the streets of Manhattan, she looked at all the different faces coming toward her and, despite their different features and colors, she regarded them all as Americans.

He was one of those capital M Men.

what a sad pair we are, " she said. "Surely we can manage a conversation on a topic other than our respective terrible evenings.

There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.

You're only as tall as your heart will let you be and you're only as small as the world will make you seem.

The best way to put more money in people's wallets is to leave it there in the first place.

I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup.

There's nothing that feels better than to do something nice for somebody. I mean nothing feels better.