I'm just a relationship girl. I fall in love and I usually have long relationships. I like getting to know people well and having substantive, long relationships.

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.

I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it.

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

I like things that look like mistakes.

Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're up to.

I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman

I feel like most people aren't either/or, they're both/and. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just one thing.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

No matter how safe and beautiful it is, a cage is still a cage.

Look, kid, ” he said, “you don’t spend a lifetime in comedy without learning a thing or two about evil.

Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.

I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself

I don't need to publish to make a living.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

A natural response to a natural phenomenon -that is the secret of success in business and management. You will always win if you rely on common sense.

Folks are like plants; we all lean towards the light.

Failure was a key element to my life’s journey.

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.