For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

Work hard to achieve integrity in your work and your relationships with the people you work with.

I've got a swimming pool and I pretend to be like a mermaid, like in the middle of the night. It kind of de-stresses me.

There are so many glamorous actresses, but you know what? In the real world, nobody looks like that.

Been sitting at home all weekend writing for MTV Movie Awards - unfortunately MTV won't let me do my strip routine ala Magic Mike.

Even when I'm playing someone named 'Fat Amy.' I'm all about confidence and attitude.

As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.

I stay fat because it just wouldn't be fair to all the thin people if I were this good-looking, intelligent, funny, and thin. It's a public service really.

I never thought I would end up being an actress. I thought I really was going to do serious stuff like law or politics.

At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends.

When I was younger I did karate and martial arts, and I think it's really cool for girls to have those kinds of abilities.

There’s secrets hiding inside this six-string just waitin’ for somebody to find ‘em and turn ‘em into music.

Procreation annihilates eternity.

There is not a man alive who would not want you.

Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.

Fishing... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.

I told my wife when I was rolling up, I felt like the president.

I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.