I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn't have to do it.

I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York.

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.

When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there's nothing more satisfying.

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.

The weddings that I've been in have been pretty mellow.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

I think no matter what kind of life you have, whether it looks one way to people or another way, you always have moments when you imagine a different life.

The world we write is but a dappled expression of the one in which we live.

We are all born for love it is the principle of existence and its only end.

Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?

No matter how many media for the dissemination of news are created, there is one rule that should never be broken:TELLTHE PEOPLE!

When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.

Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.

I do a lot of yoga. There's more and more guys getting into yoga these days, and I find that helps me as well.

As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of Apartheid everywhere around me.

A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.