One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I've always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Karaoke is the great equalizer.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

It's easy to be with someone who is completely different from you, but difficult when that person holds starkly different opinions from you.

Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.

A girl can dream can’t she? My new life plan is to stumble into every office of a CEO until I find a Christian Grey.

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.

When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.

I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Everybody else is going to react differently to the film [Aquarius], but what I love about it is that both men and women are going to react to it because they will find themselves represented.