Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.

You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.

I’d just like to be good at sports. I’m extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.

We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.

The mountain of ignorance must be pulled down.

To do is to be.

Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.

We all know if we change the bill, it's gone.

The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.

Attorney General John Ashcroft said there is a new credible terrorist threat. He said everything is under control; not to panic. And then he went back to his harmonically sealed bunker.

Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.

I don't think you make fans happy by just replicating frames. What they want to see is that you stayed true to the story, true to the characters and true to the design.

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.