I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.

I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.

I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.

I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.

I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.

I'm a huge poster collector.

I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.

If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever.

If You Want to Learn Anything About Being Human, Make a Friendship With New Born Child .

It's like she thinks my job is to please her, and that should be my dearest wish, and when I don't please her - I get shut out.

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

I think people hold back all kinds of things. And in a way, they just want to be nice. They want to be civil.

Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude.

Love doesn't exactly come with an off switch.

Life is like a great jazz riff. You sense the end the very moment you were wanting it to go on forever.

The only real difference between me and chocolate pudding is that I am not a black man.