I don’t think men have time to be funny because they have to make all of our rules about what we can do with our vaginas.

There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist

Don't be snarky, but don't be saccharine. Don't pander, but don't shut people out. Go straight down the line with the performance.

I'd like to be in a tiny indie where I'm lost at sea.

I just want to work hard. I love that feeling.

I always just wanted to be a movie actress, like Lily Tomlin or Ruth Gordon. I just imagined myself being in a movie, wearing stylish women's clothing the way I saw Amy Irving wearing it.

Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.

I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.

I think my comedic style is at once bashful and explosive. It's a little bit perverted, and a little bit ladylike and old-fashioned, which is a great mix. Sort of tangy.

I'm competitive and I have a messy purse, but otherwise, I like people to think I'm a winner.

Although I do stand-up - doing actual stage work is terrifying for me.

You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.

The imagination is always more horrible than the truth.

No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.

I've been a little cranky since that house fell on my sister.

I dont necessarily go to church every week, but I am a Christian, and I believe in God and Jesus Christ.

For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.

You have to be patient. I'm not!

Opportunity does not knock. You have to find it