It’s funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.

I'm married but the special man is my dog, Henry.

Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.

I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

It's fun to watch a true-blue movie star at work. They're really unbelievably charismatic. They understand camera angles.

Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.

You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

I like playing the same person over and over again. I've done shows for over a year on Broadway, and I never get bored.

There are different kinds of actors, and movie actors tend to be exceedingly precise and mechanical in a way that's really admirable for me to watch. You always learn from them.

Quality time is not the same as the everydayness of being together. Let’s neither glorify nor undervalue.

How you look it is pretty much how you'll see it

All the really successful, happy relationships that I know of, the people that are together are friends, anyways.

Few things are less comforting than a tiger who's up too late.

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

America needed recovery, not revenge. The hate had to be drained and the healing begun.

Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.

There are a lot of things that American fans don't know about me yet! I would say they don't know me at all, but I guess that's great because now I have the chance to surprise them and make friends.

Editing is a very tough period. You're confronted with yourself. It's a deep, dark, truthful mirror.