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

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.

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

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.

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.

You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.

It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life, from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.

It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]

I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.

I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

The lights in side the cage will tell everything you did or did not do in your camp!