I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.

Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

Doing the right thing has power.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

That's my favorite food group: donut. I love the donut.

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

When you are in the 8 o'clock position, you can either be a cultural phenomenon, or you're endangered. It's a tough time slot.

The coffeehouse is good for genius, and the Viennese coffeehouse is a classic case. Freud had his favorite coffee shop, and so did Gustav Klimt.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.

I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.

The stage is not only a world apart, it is a myriad of worlds, and in those worlds a man can have anything he fancies, if only he believes in what he sees.

I've definitely grown, and I think I've done enough stuff that people might look at me only as Veronica Mars. But honestly, I really don't mind if they do.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.