Who are my influences? Everybody.

We need to do a better job of understanding what the world is.

I feel like little kids should and do steal money. That is a major part of being a young child.

I get a lot of credit for having succeeded as a Latina in this world, and I am not that. I appreciate it, but I'm Italian. And that does happen a lot.

Stealing money from your parents - I feel like I did that a lot and I now know as an adult that your parents knew how much money they had. Nobody was being fooled.

It's hard to narrow down your influences in comedy.

Run. Yoga. Hike. Generally try to outpace the nerves. If that doesn't work, one Jack on the rocks.

I love my job and I think my job is hard, but also, my job is such a privilege.

If I'm going one place, I want to feel like I can really get the whole vibe.

I am embarrassed to exist.

What have I stolen? Probably money as a kid.

It was in the words he didn't say... that I found all the answers to my questions.

Kiss me twice, I am schizophrenic .. Kiss me ten times, I am obsessive!

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

There will always be something to strive for. My hope is for the heart to strive forever.

I was building the plane while flying it in the first term.

We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.

If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage.

For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram it was a woman.