I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that.

There is sexism - I'm not denying its existence. But I'm saying that I will deny its effort against me. I just pay it no nevermind and say, 'Get out of my way.'

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

I dropped out of college my junior year to do saturday night live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice.

I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms.

There is tremendous inequity in Hollywood and politics, and I would say globally it's challenging to be a woman and succeed.

If I have chocolate around, I will eat it. I love it, I love it, I love it. I like a piece every day.

Keeping a sense of humor about life. My parents divorced when I was 8, and whenever I felt down, my mom would remind me that a sense of humor gets you through just about anything.

It is, I think, harder for women. I haven't quite figured it out, and all of my women friends haven't figured it out -how the hell do you do this? How do you work and have families?

Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.

This is an embarrassment of riches, and boy, am I happy to be embarrassed.

You are not born to follow the society, you are born to inspire it - you are born to teach it - you are born to build it.

I wish I knew how to get you back. And apparently fate won't let me give up"From Central Park Song: a Screenplay

What would it be like to hold a different girl?

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!

Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.

Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate to the number of repetitions.

That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.

I like doing other things. I like getting high, hanging out with my kids. I like drinking. I have so many demons.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.