I’d just like to be good at sports. I’m extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.

You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.

Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.

Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

When Celtic get an opportunity to go above Rangers they've got to jump at it with both hands.

I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell.

I think the true rock fans are pretty loyal.

The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

If synagogues are attacked, this would give Jewish extremists an excuse to attack mosques.

American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.