Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead, " I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.

It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend.

Everyone knows Cristiano Ronaldo is better than Messi, not only me, but for some it's hard to recognize that.

I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.

I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded by certain ideas that hold us back, such as the over-glorification of masculine consciousness.

I think that you sign a sort of unwritten contract when you become a public figure, when you become an actor, that you're sacrificing a certain amount of privacy and parts of your life change.

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.

If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?