sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.

I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.

We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.

In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.

I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.

I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago.

I'm just a Ragetty Anne in a Barbie Doll World

Life is a constant process of change, for better or worse.

art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.

People, we're always reaching for these big things... you know? Big ideas... big moments... big lives. And all the while the little things we're ignoring are undoing us.

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.

Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.

The marines gave me an eternal discipline.

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.

Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo.

I would say one of the reasons that women don't invest to the same extent that men do, is because we still think of it in some ways as a male pursuit.

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.