When we could split the screen, it was like 'Wow!'.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

When we could split the screen, it was like 'Wow!'.

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove.

Every language has its own music.

If I don't believe it, I don't care.

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'

The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.

I'm the comedic girl next door and a lot of fun.

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.

Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.

I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.

Throughout her life, my grandmother was a champion for the arts and giving back.

When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

I have observed private and proprietary colleges, like the University of Phoenix, and the market they serve. And I found it intriguing the way in which they are trying to deliver the product, with more accountability, for a price.

You know what I'm realizing? I always love a place if I like the movie I'm doing there. I've heard people say, 'I hate Pittsburgh,' and I'm like, 'I love Pittsburgh so much!' I loved what I was doing there, and I loved Austin for the same reason.

I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.

From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject. But when teenagers take the bait and live out our fantasies for us, we punish them for frightening us too much.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

Your mind is a magic pot, from which you pick the things, and manifest life out of it. If you don't tell your mind, your priorities, it will be easier for your mind, to pick anything, to serve you with your life.

My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.

Six feet of earth makes us all equal.

The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.

Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

Anything that's secret, clandestine, loaded with such a supercargo of speculation, misinformation, disinformation and, for that matter, accurate revelations, creates an appetite.

Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. 'How are you' is a greeting, not a question.