When I would go on stage I would start to feel that the eyes that watching me weren't kind. And it took me a while to realize that those eyes were my own eyes.

There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist

Don't be snarky, but don't be saccharine. Don't pander, but don't shut people out. Go straight down the line with the performance.

I'd like to be in a tiny indie where I'm lost at sea.

I just want to work hard. I love that feeling.

I always just wanted to be a movie actress, like Lily Tomlin or Ruth Gordon. I just imagined myself being in a movie, wearing stylish women's clothing the way I saw Amy Irving wearing it.

Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.

I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.

I think my comedic style is at once bashful and explosive. It's a little bit perverted, and a little bit ladylike and old-fashioned, which is a great mix. Sort of tangy.

I'm competitive and I have a messy purse, but otherwise, I like people to think I'm a winner.

I don’t think men have time to be funny because they have to make all of our rules about what we can do with our vaginas.

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

Small scenes can be so beautiful that they change a man forever.

Six nervous wives at the sink, each quiet as a queen on a chessboard.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

I think I gave Alec a complex about what kind of fighter he was, just because he wanted to live.

The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

If you want to be successful, never laugh!

There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

Energy is a very subtle concept. It is very, very difficult to get right.