In comedy it helps if there's a friendly atmosphere on the set.

I cook rarely, but I've kind of got two or three dishes that I stick to. I do a great sweet potato and lentil curry.

After 'Bridesmaids,' women know who I am.

I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

I definitely enjoy an audience, when I'm performing. As I get older I'm kind of less comfortable at being demonstrative. I always fancied myself as a raconteur, but that never really worked out.

I mean, I'm an uncle of seven or eight, and I don't mind it at all! Kids are great. Kids are the best six-hour experience you can have!

Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.

The cauliflower soup sounds so good. And the broccoli-melt sandwich. I've never heard of such a thing.

I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.

I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is.

If you want to be among the few who rule the world you therefore must learn to convert every time of your life, every second and minute that passes by.

If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

Example is leadership.

Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar

Who has the right to tell me that I don't deserve this choice?

Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.

An odd outlook on life is the beginning of good comedic writing.