Mel: What was your name again? Rain: Rain. Mel: Oh that's nice. Kind of like bad weather.

Everybody's trying to leave their mark on the world. That's why there's graffiti and babies.

Turkeys are peacocks that have really let themselves go.

No one knows who the real me is, so I can be a hundred different kinds of me.

I diagnosed my loneliness as premature empty nest syndrome.

He resisted for a while and there were some legal boundaries, you know, keeping me from being near him or his family, but in the end, love overcame. And I got what I wanted. I always get what I want.

Most of the people I know in comedy are not weird or messed up.

I would love for people to know that the label feminist is something that everyone should wear proudly, because it just means that you support women.

This is very ambitious, but I don't care. I'm just gonna go ahead and find Amelia Earhart. Every day that goes by, I just fear the worst for her.

I think I've always had a disconnect from what I'm supposed to be like.

You know, quite a few species of fish require two or more sexual partners.

After winter, spring never forgets to come.

Sometimes you have to go through the worst, to get to the best. Keep moving forward. Be patient.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

We should never be allowed to forget that it is the customer who, in the end, determines how many people are employed and what sort of wages companies can afford.

Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why.

I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.

I follow the rules until I go against them all.

I'm a good judge of my own work.

For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.

Distraction is the main problem for us all - what the Buddha called the monkey mind. We need to tame this monkey mind.