I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.

I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.

Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.

It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.

I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.

I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.

I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.

Well, one of the things I love about 'The Office' is that it has so much heart.

I earn the magic of words by writing.I learn the myth of worlds by imagining.

The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.

How devastating to find 'the one' and not be 'their one.

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Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.

It doesn't matter where anybody lives, we're all here.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.

Television gives you the opportunity to create more of an ongoing camaraderie with everyone you're working with.