I never go about a new project as if I'm trying ot redefine myself. I just like to work, and I'm excited by material I find challenging and - if it's a comedy - exceptionally funny.

I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that.

There is sexism - I'm not denying its existence. But I'm saying that I will deny its effort against me. I just pay it no nevermind and say, 'Get out of my way.'

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

I dropped out of college my junior year to do saturday night live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice.

I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms.

There is tremendous inequity in Hollywood and politics, and I would say globally it's challenging to be a woman and succeed.

If I have chocolate around, I will eat it. I love it, I love it, I love it. I like a piece every day.

Keeping a sense of humor about life. My parents divorced when I was 8, and whenever I felt down, my mom would remind me that a sense of humor gets you through just about anything.

It is, I think, harder for women. I haven't quite figured it out, and all of my women friends haven't figured it out -how the hell do you do this? How do you work and have families?

Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

I want a faith that's so alive, it can be seen. I want a hope that cannot hide, even when I'm weak.

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television?

It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books.

Love is like that. I could crush her beneath the weight of confession.

Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.