The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs.

The older you get, the more you realize that the way you look is a reflection of how you treat yourself.

There's nothing I love more than a good cry.

I feel like I'm one of the happiest people I know.

I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.

I would do 'American Splendor' and 'About Schmidt' again in a heartbeat.

I travel all the time, and I have two small children.

I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.

I just love to make a whole roomful of people laugh.

I haven't frequented a nail salon in a long time.

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

(And also like Satan, I'm a beautiful loser.)

Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value.

We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S.

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth

Being is Dying by Loving.

For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.

Building a practice of gratitude is the best way I know to create an optimistic approach to life. Start each day by lying in bed for five minutes and mentally acknowledging what you are grateful for.

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.