I'm a believer in paying your dues.

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.

It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.

I am afraid that if I start to sob, I will never stop until I shrivel up like a raisin.

A ship on the port always waits for you to sail to the oceans!

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

In the lead-up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw, at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence, and irresponsibility; at worst, lying, incompetence, and corruption.

if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can’t look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

I've got to get stop getting fired like this. People will start to think I'm a drifter.

Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened.

Abraham Lincoln, who said, A house divided... is a condominium. Never got a dinner!