My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs.

I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.

I love any movie that has a retarded person working at Starbucks.

I like light green, sometimes red is fun to look at, not a fan of yellow, unless it's in a rainbow or on a coffee mug or on a happy face.

Here in L.A., there are a lot of dead spots, and you have to drive to find energy, but all of India is so energetic.

I love traffic. It's fantastic. New York traffic is so relaxing.

It sounds gross to say that I like myself more. But not everyone likes themselves that much. Especially in the comedy world.

Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.

I wish I was dating one of the ladies in 'Bollywood Hero.' They're gorgeous. Any of them.

I'm fine with the life I have.

Believe in yourself and try not to take anything personally.

In the universe, nothing is either beautiful or ugly, but our perception and thinking makes it so.

It is the depressed who are the sacrifice required for social progression.

One must be a lotus to emerge from mucky waters clean.

My advice to writers: thank goodness we can revise and adjust and tighten and rethink before going public with our words. Revision is our friend. Our best friend. I love revision.

Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.

The word diva has a negative connotation.

When we imagine the power of all our sisters standing together on the shoulders of a quality education - our joy knows no bounds.

Freedom comes in individual packages.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.