I'm sure that if I had a partner and that partner cheated on me, that I would be devastated if we were in a committed, monogamous relationship. So of course, it's a devastating thing.

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 just want to work hard. I love that feeling.

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.

Growing older does not automatically mean growing kinder or wiser.

Autonomy isn't the opposite of accountability - it's the pathway to it.

Here is a nice fact books and ebooks take a lot of time to be read, but audiobooks just for one day or 2 you finish them... this is a great fact!

We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense, just as we urge China, India and Pakistan to discontinue their nuclear arsenals.

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

Love is always creative, fear always destructive.

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.

But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me.