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

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.

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

Stories can save us.

One of the best parts of being a Guardian is that we get a chance to grow and change. We get to exist in both worlds. We know the secret of life and have the knowledge of death

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.

I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor is different. And on the film set, you have to be next to them all.

Live purely in the moment on a rampage of appreciation.