No one's too big for a compliment. A lot of times, people think with celebrities, 'Oh, she knows she's great in that!' Meryl Streep still likes a compliment. I guarantee you, it touches her heart.

I was always thinking the funny things but was always quiet and scared to be made fun of.

I think girls in general need to be more complimentary... It just makes people feel better.

You're not too good for the sleep mask-neck pillow combo! You're not too cool for it!

I throw out compliments to strangers all the time, because I would like it back at me, and do unto others.

I've been living out of a suitcase for over a decade.

When you use sleep mask, no one's gonna recognize you. You're gonna look like an idiot, but it's so worth it.

I like guys with a sense of humor who smile a lot and are kind.

As far as how I approach the humor, I think the best comedy is going to happen when I'm myself and act organically to a news item or situation.

All my relatives and friends have been pretty aware of my brand of humor for a while, so none of them have been shocked.

I don't know what that is because to me, Feb. 14 is Rob Thomas' birthday, and that's only what I acknowledge it as. I just like to celebrate that as Rob Thomas' birthday.

We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.

Write about what you don't know about what you know.

The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.

For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and again, but whom you cannot punish, because they're babies.

I was pretty quiet as a child. I kind of hung out with my family and listened to music and sh*t. I wasn't too outgoing at all.

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective.

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.

What does an actor know about politics?

I have a big mouth, and over the years, as the eldest of five, I have had a tendency to speak when no one really cared.

The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.