You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.

I’d just like to be good at sports. I’m extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.

Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very

I believe that just because something didn’t go the way you planned it once, it’s no reason not to try again.

Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.

I was the nerdy one. I always played those kind of characters until Mad Men.

At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.

The business of judging a headline AFTER you read the copy is wrong. It takes for granted that everybody reads the copy.

When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school!

Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.

I didn't have to wear a mask on Halloween to scare people, so I didn't need one to cover my face on the field!