Before I could talk, I would try to sing.

I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.

We hurt each other because we care about each other.

You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.

I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

Just because someone isn't working at an office doesn't mean they're not working hard at something.

I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.

I think you have to have a little bit of a screw loose to think that you can [become an actor] because the odds are so against you. I was just crazy enough to think I could do it.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

Each person has their own calling on this Earth.

break the rules pay the price

This may surprise you, but there were a large number of valuable buys during the Depression.

I want to accelerate, not slow down, the enforcement of the death penalty in Florida.

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

You have robbed me, and everyone here, of their purpose. That's not salvation, that's damnation.

I don't have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I'm going to keep talking. I can't imagine a life without doing standup.

Rebelliousness really is the province of young people-that kind of iconoclasm.

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it