Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.

You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'

I like comedy as a group sport.

Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool.

I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.

I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I’m African American but that doesn’t include the other half of me.

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

When I first moved to New York, someone who thought they knew more than I did said: "You have to always look like you know where you're going when you get out of the subway."

I'm always learning when I'm surrounded by great people. In every experience, I feel like I'm learning. I'm not like, "Oh good. I'm done! I don't have to learn anymore."

I like being a funny lady. I think theres nothing sexier than a funny lady.

Pretend you are a foolish to the tyrant – because if he realizes you are a genius, he might use you to harm others.

The greatest fear of my life turned into the most relaxation moment when I realized ‘I am not alone in this.

There was never a great genius without a touch of madness.

Like a bellowing beast, he howled her name, his raspy wails riding the gales like a ship on a roiling sea.

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms.

Ever since I first started acting I've wanted to have a long career.

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.

The only secure knowledge is that I exist.