I really like to cook and have dinner parties and I like to clean, it really clears my head and it makes me feel good to keep my home as a comfortable place.

There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist

Don't be snarky, but don't be saccharine. Don't pander, but don't shut people out. Go straight down the line with the performance.

I'd like to be in a tiny indie where I'm lost at sea.

I just want to work hard. I love that feeling.

I always just wanted to be a movie actress, like Lily Tomlin or Ruth Gordon. I just imagined myself being in a movie, wearing stylish women's clothing the way I saw Amy Irving wearing it.

Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.

I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.

I think my comedic style is at once bashful and explosive. It's a little bit perverted, and a little bit ladylike and old-fashioned, which is a great mix. Sort of tangy.

I'm competitive and I have a messy purse, but otherwise, I like people to think I'm a winner.

I don’t think men have time to be funny because they have to make all of our rules about what we can do with our vaginas.

It's only awkward if it matters.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

I'd rather have flowers in my hair, than diamonds around my neck.

Once we meet our children, even for moments, in a place of "I don't know," of relinquished authority, we return to the realms of mystery and magic, where real connection becomes alive again.

Only recently have people begun to recognise that working with suppliers is just as important as listening to customers.

You don't choose who you love.

Why is life so difficult for some people and not for others? Why do some people have to struggle so much?

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

I got a voodoo doll every time I pen a verse: Not only do they say they feel it, but they say it hurts.

No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. - Poseidon