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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Think good for yourself, good will follow you.when you think good for others, happiness will follow you and when happiness follows you, people will follow you.

Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.

Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the rest.

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

We don't back off obstacles and tough situations, we use them to make us stronger.

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.

Do not cherish suffering. Don't act like a fool. Don't think that your suffering is going to accelerate your spiritual progress.

Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.

In 1823, William Webb Ellis first picked up the ball in his arms and ran with it. And for the next 156 years forwards have been trying to work out why.