If there's cheesecake in the house, I'll have some.

I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer.

I think children are like pancakes. You sort of ruin the first one, and you get better at it the second time around.

I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.

It makes my makeup artist's life easier. [Plus] it makes my eyes look a little more open on TV, which is where I happen to work right now.

If I win, it's because of my natural ability and if I lose, it's because I wasn't trying so hard.

My job affords me the luxury of having help. I don't feel exhausted, I feel lucky.

I try to make my heart beat out of my chest, hard-core, once a day for at least a half hour. I think that's very important.

I always remind my kids, "I'm your parent, but I'm a human being, too, so I may not be perfect."

I had a picture-perfect childhood. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.

I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for T.V.

A person's mental capacity can enable him or her to become a vigorous human being because he or she will be persistent to tolerate a lot of physical or mental weight that are loaded upon him or her.

Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

I have a sordid past.

Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

For someone like Daniel Radcliffe, it’s really fun to go against your image. He’s such a goody-two-shoes in Harry Potter. I just wanted him to throw off the gloves and be weird and quirky.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

I think that Donald Trump is very concerned about finding the right way to be effective in a responsible way. And he wants to be effective.