I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.

I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.

I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.

Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.

It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.

I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.

I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.

Well, one of the things I love about 'The Office' is that it has so much heart.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.

My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.

God, life changes faster than you think.

I think the wildest wildlife you can find these days is in Chernobyl, where wolves are running around breeding quite well in the nuclear disaster zones.

Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us.

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

I think the media's a little frightened of women.

I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in music and all his musical skills. I finally managed to make that my profession.

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...