Did I think I'd ever be in television shows that people would see or movies? No. But I knew that I was going to be an actor.

I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page.

I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'

You find your tribe and you stick with them.

My awesome career has been nothing but chaos. Whatever comes toward me feels like the right thing to do in the moment and that's great.

It's okay to be two things at once and a paradox. Everybody is. As humans for survival we like to label things in a split second. It is how we don't implode from anxiety.

I'm very tactile. I'm a big hugger, one of those huggy people.

Everything you think you're supposed to feel even, or do. When it doesn't match up with what everything that the culture is telling you to do, you feel like a failure.

There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.

People want to give advice but can't take it themselves.

I've never been with an uncircumcised guy.

The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.

When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.

Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.

Sting! I mean, come on - whoe doesn't love Sting? Even if you love Megadeath, you have respect for Sting. If you love Pokemon, you'll find out who Sting is someday.

God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed.

Religion is caught, not taught.