People want to give advice but can't take it themselves.

I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page.

I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'

You find your tribe and you stick with them.

My awesome career has been nothing but chaos. Whatever comes toward me feels like the right thing to do in the moment and that's great.

It's okay to be two things at once and a paradox. Everybody is. As humans for survival we like to label things in a split second. It is how we don't implode from anxiety.

I'm very tactile. I'm a big hugger, one of those huggy people.

Everything you think you're supposed to feel even, or do. When it doesn't match up with what everything that the culture is telling you to do, you feel like a failure.

There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.

I've never been with an uncircumcised guy.

I feel like I've been able to be my true self and discover what I can honestly bring to the table by working with other women.

Accept criticism. If you do not offer your work for criticism and accept that criticism, meaning give it serious thought and attention, then you will never improve.

we only shout when we neglect what silence can do

Because a time comes in every man's life when he decides what sort of man he's going to be: the kind who lets other people walk all over him, or not.

People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.

Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.

The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.

Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.