Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.

I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.

You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.

I’d just like to be good at sports. I’m extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.

Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.

Order is the key to all problems.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

It was plain to see the Hollywood undertakers take care of everything. If you die you don't have to lift a finger.

Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.

Valued achievements connect to people at a deeper level—and a deeper level can change behavior that is generally very difficult to change.