I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.

You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.

I’d just like to be good at sports. I’m extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.

Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.

The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

Near the land of the convertible moon

Your brain is a forest, And the nerves are trees.When the branches touch, Snaps jumps between the leaves.

Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.

The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

The politicians in America are all taken over by the lobbyists. I really believe the lobbyists keep them shut up because China and Chinese companies have all got tremendous lobbyists.

The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles.

Now that I've got kids, it's become really important for me on the health front to try to buy as much organic produce as possible.

Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.