Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.

Women have been funny for years.

In today's world, most people are working side jobs while waiting to do what they really want to do.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

My best girlfriends are the girls I went to college with at UCLA.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

I'm ugly, I'm overweight, but I'm happy

I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.

Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.

A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course.

It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.

The freedom to make my own mistakes is all I've ever wanted

There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.

I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.

Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.