Comedy can simultaneously allow you to dive headfirst into the world's pain and escape it.

Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women.

I think that Ruth Bader Ginsburg needs, like, a pump-up. And I think Jock Jams is a classic pump-up. Like before she starts working, she needs that.

I used to not be into the fancy ones. I used to eat goo balls all the time.

Cereal when high is always a great option. I don't even have cereal for that reason.

Every show that comes out that's female driven is compared to the last female-driven show, as if it's taking over.

I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen.

It takes a pillage.

To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me.

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

Sophia Loren plays peasants. I play ladies.

I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

These are the kind of things I always zero in. When I was in Rwanda, it was the same thing. You're always zeroing in those details. Not just always the bodies, but what makes up the human being.

He, who loves praise, loves temptation.