I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.

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.

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

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.

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

An hour is indeed a long time when you count every second

Man persists in waywardness. If one institution fails [he says], try another—anything but God’s plan.

You have to first discover yourself before you could succeed in being your true self.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?

The franchise tag is worth something to the team, and you can't be afraid to use it.

One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.

Lord Castlerosse was taken to task by Nancy Astor over the size of his stomach. 'What would you say if that was on a woman?' she asked, pointedly. 'Half an hour ago it was,' he replied.

I didn't know children's songs could be this deadly.

We are taking a greater chance of having another crash at a time when the world is less capable of bearing the cost.