I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

I'm a very social person and I love being out in the world, and the feeling of not having that is the scariest thing to me.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.

I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else will discover it and think it's great too.

I'm the curvy one of the family.

I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.

I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a room, that's what I would do.

We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifest the very thing we love about ourselves so that they may see it and love us too.

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall.

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

DNA is like Midas's gold, everyone who touches it goes mad.

Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the daily stock market report.

On I’ll pass, dragging my huge love behind me. On what feverish night, deliria-ridden, by what Goliaths was I begot – I, so big and by no one needed?