My twin in the show is Molly Stanton who is so sweet and great and she is totally different from me.

I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong.

The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets.

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.

I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.

Id just love to have an audience and its the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.

I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.

I'd to do more stuff with less sarcasm.

Darkness does not leave up as easily as we would hope.

Our intention creates our reality.

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

I've sung other people's music all my life.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.

I fooled you. I fooled you. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

People always arrive promptly at the places where they are expected.

One day I will have to forgive life for ending, I tell myself. I will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality ... just be what it is.