I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school.

Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.

I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.

I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school.

Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?

All my brothers and sisters are really witty, and I would just sit back and enjoy them.

Anything Pixar does, you know, I really just am in awe of them and thrilled to be included in anything they do.

Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.

But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.

Carl Reiner is perfection.

Chicago has definitely played a part in my character development. I love the essence of the city, the personalities of the people, the hard-working spirit that you need to get through the winters. And every neighborhood has its great restaurants and the local hot-dog stand.

Everybody knows when you're a struggling family; you don't really know it when you're a kid. But you do know the difference between stress and moments of relief where there's, like, this happiness.

Everyone hopes to get a fall slot, but I'm just happy to get on the air.

Everywhere I go, people think I'm Helen Hunt.

Humor is very healing.

I am a storyteller, and I take great pride in the storytelling and a great joy.

I am on the phone with my sisters every day.

I don't have the fear I won't be able to think of something else to write. It's what I do.

I don't have the fear of my looks changing.

I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

I don't think of myself as a comedian.

I don't think this is the end of Oprah, it's only the beginning. I have a feeling that she'll probably have her own station, and continue to do what she does.

I don't understand the rewarding of behavior that is less than classy. I don't get it.

I don't write punch lines.

I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.

I have a great affinity for senior citizens.

I keep saying I won't go back to television, but I do.

I like regular meals and restaurants that will adapt things to your taste. Not a place where they roll their eyes if you want the sauce on the side.

I live in this apartment building, and everybody who lives there thinks of me as a housewife. People drop their babies off with me. Or I get notes: 'I'm going to be gone for three days. The keys are under the mat; take care of the cats.' Because they all think I'm home all the time.

I love talking to people and finding out their opinion.

I love writing.

I loved when my folks would watch 'The Dean Martin Show.'

I only have one job, and that's being a storyteller.

I remember, when I was 7, my dad found a pregnant dog on the railroad track one day and brought her home. So my mom explained about how this dog was married but that her husband had passed away - she didn't want me to even think that a dog could have babies without being married.

I think you have to see the high highs and the low lows to get to the core of what makes us tick as people.

I thought of Second City as just the greatest therapeutic job anybody could ever dream of having.

I thought of school as a captive audience. It gave me a chance to work on my material.

I wanted to be a story teller so badly.

I was a good kid.

I was so angry at God for taking my father from me that I marched up to my mother before the funeral and told her I was going to quit nursing school. I just wanted to stop living.

I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.

I won't wear fur - never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.

I worked at a nursing home though high school... There's a lost appreciation for a generation that has so much to tell us when we're so full of self-help books and doctors on TV.

I would hope to have some of the same audience that Oprah has earned. And I would love to earn that, as well.

I'm a blue-collar Chicago girl raised on wonderful movies my mom took us to, ones that had a lot of heart.

I'm from an Irish Catholic family.

I'm right on the edge of getting another movie. It's between me and a famous person. The studio said they're thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, 'That's great! Because I have one!'