I have a side of me that doesn't care. I really enjoy physical comedy, thinking of an idea and pitching it to the director.

I love the power women have. I think women rule the world because they rule men. Manipulating men - that's our job. That's what we're on the planet for.

I think there is nothing sexier than a handlebar moustache.

All I know is that I've ruled out wearing fairy wings. When I was nine I wanted to get married in fairy wings, and now I realize that's not cool anymore.

I'm definitely attracted to other Australians; I have a laid-back attitude to life that I feel is very Australian; I love a good barbie.

I think your heart dances to the beat of your own drum, and I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.

Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.

An easy way to get people to like you is to make them laugh.

Anytime anyone compliments me on my figure, I'm wearing my Spanx undies.

I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.

Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.

You can't improve anything if you don't first know what needs to be improved.

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys.

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

It is remarkable what a woman can accomplish with just a little ambition.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

I think that the coalition that President [Barack] Obama put together to win twice is a coalition that I can put together and add to.

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else.

The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you're carrying out an assault.