Most New Yorkers want to look amazing, and they want you to understand that they look amazing, but they also want you to stop staring at them.

I think weather affects my mood a lot more than I thought, and I like to be in bad moods sometimes.

My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.

If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.

Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'

I once heard an exec say, "If you don't ask for it, we can't give it to you." We can't go through our lives just being grateful for everything.

When I laugh hard, sometimes I wet my pants, but I'm always relieved because that means I'm having a good time.

New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.

Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins.

I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised.

I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.

Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

the courage it took to get out of bed eachmorningto face the same thingsover and overwasenormous.

Small-town boy meets big-time evil.

You can succeed beyond the past, but not beyond your belief

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.

Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those

Life is a puzzle that I feel like we'll never fully put together.

Just because I'm flaunting it doesn't mean you can stare for hours on end. A polite ogle is appreciated and suitable for a flaunt. Slobbering is not.