Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

I cook rarely, but I've kind of got two or three dishes that I stick to. I do a great sweet potato and lentil curry.

After 'Bridesmaids,' women know who I am.

I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

I definitely enjoy an audience, when I'm performing. As I get older I'm kind of less comfortable at being demonstrative. I always fancied myself as a raconteur, but that never really worked out.

I mean, I'm an uncle of seven or eight, and I don't mind it at all! Kids are great. Kids are the best six-hour experience you can have!

Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.

The cauliflower soup sounds so good. And the broccoli-melt sandwich. I've never heard of such a thing.

I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.

I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is.

The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.

We're still not where we're going but we're not where we were.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

You know, this is what I've always thought a college should look like.

Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.

I felt this was my duty, my sole duty: to reconcile the irreconcilables, to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it, to the best of my ability, into light.

Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?