The weird part is actually, there were so many exceptionally talented people there [ on "MADtv"]. But it was a disaster. I don't think I enjoyed any of it, really. I had a different sensibility.

It's always nice when someone says that they don't realize it's me on screen, but it would be strange to enter a one story while thinking of another character I do, which is completely different.

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.

To me the ambiguity is, maybe our perception of ourselves is always going to be different than somebody else's perception. There will always be that disparity.

Well, I think that everybody is kind of a nerd at heart.

Generally people are nice, but it's so weird that it has made me more cautious. Just like anyone else, I like looking around at my environment, but now as I walk down the street I tend to look down.

It's not really about confidence. It's just something that isn't really in the vocabulary of what goes on at work. The writers write and the actors act.

I was like, I can't believe I get to be in a scene with Meryl Streep [in Florence Foster Jenkins]! And then I was like, but why do I have to play Chopin? It's already going to be intimidating.

That is what's disconcerting about working on the show, you can't seem to get an instinct about what works and what doesn't. It happens a lot, and in different ways.

There's also these moments when you're like, oh, I really want to do different things. Not instead of this show [The Big Bang Theory]. It's just a hunger to do something else, too.

Im married, so I tend not to hit on every girl.

Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.

If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was 1.

The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

The only difference between a winner and a loser is a winner plays until he wins

I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress.

We look up at the same stars and see such different things." - Jon Snow

"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".

All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

Yes is the destination, No is how you get there!