You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast

You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.

The eyes are the nipples of the face.

Instead of the mahi mahi, may I just get the one mahi because I’m not that hungry.

Especially in the world of comedy, it feels like you have to be proactive, in terms of pitching and trying to sell and being a part of the creation of the stuff that you do.

The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.

Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously.

I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

I grew out my armpit hair for the summer. It turns out my natural hair colour isn't blonde.

I know I looked skinnier in The House Bunny, but thanks to my diet of beer and doughnuts, I'm back to my fightin' weight!'

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

It's nice to feel the fans are behind you. You shouldn't concern yourself with things like that - but it does matter.

Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.

Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Write this: Since my boy is the coach, I'm going to try out for the Dolphins next year. Tight end.

Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound.

If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.