I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.

You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'

I like comedy as a group sport.

Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool.

I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I’m African American but that doesn’t include the other half of me.

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

When I first moved to New York, someone who thought they knew more than I did said: "You have to always look like you know where you're going when you get out of the subway."

I'm always learning when I'm surrounded by great people. In every experience, I feel like I'm learning. I'm not like, "Oh good. I'm done! I don't have to learn anymore."

I like being a funny lady. I think theres nothing sexier than a funny lady.

The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.

Humility is like underwear essential but indecent if it shows.

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

What we have to do moving forward is to make sure that small businesses that account for most of the job growth in our economy are getting the kind of financing that they need.

Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.

The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.

I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A feature film is much closer to a short story actually.

Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive?

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.

Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.