If you make a careless choice, you can really ruin things and it can take awhile for them to repair.

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.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

I am my own mentor. I like to listen to myself to improve.

We're not ordinary, you don't want to be ordinary.

I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.

Distance lasts a day. But Reality lasts a lifetime.

Don't take yourself too seriously - learn to laugh. Hire slowly and fire fast. And the most important thing is: you never invest in ideas, only in people!

I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.