Just sharing things that are either embarrassing or possibly relatable, searching for that laugh so that someone makes me feel less alone. Like, 'Oh, they laughed, so they get what I'm saying.

When I was growing up I don't think Muslims and Jews were considered to be opposites.

The art world doesn't exist in a vacuum.

My grandma was somebody who had a garden and grew plants all the time.

I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then I eventually went to music college and did a two-year course in...

Sometimes I buy a fun cereal and let me tell you - the night before I go to bed a little bit excited.

Don't try to fix anyone, especially not a dude. They're not going to change.

I don't mind people liking or not liking me. If you make something and then in the back of your mind you think it could have been a bit better, that can hurt a bit.

I would have benefited a lot from proper training. I could have done with a strong wake-up call about getting jobs.

We sit in a room, laugh, and all come up with comedy situations, which we work out. Sometimes we cross the line, like getting a guy to pull out of his own wedding while the ceremony's taking place.

I started doing little amateur nights at the comedy club that was right next to the restaurant that I waitressed in when I was in university. I was probably 22 years old. I didn't do it with any...

My maternal grandmother had what might be described in a school report as a 'lively imagination.' She told us that she was a direct descendant of Sir Christopher Wren.

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone's watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.

It was always hard for me to find clothes.

You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.

I have memories of my grandfather Kirkman making mashed potatoes that were so good because they tasted like a bowl of butter. I love my mom's brownies. My favorite thing about both of those recipes is...

I don't really have a theatre background at all.

I feel guilty: when I'm not golfing, I feel like I should be golfing. And when I'm golfing, I feel like I should be home working or spending time with the family. So it's a real conundrum.

Sometimes it's difficult to laugh at certain things but comedy can help.

Just because you live longer doesn't necessarily give you a greater edge in quality.

Wish I could, through my own financial prestidigitation, transform a dollar bill into two, or two million. It is an awesome and mysterious skill.

When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.

Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy.

Often it's seen as empowering if you're cleverer than the men, or more aware - then you're giving the woman a great strong role. And that's true to an extent. But when it's a comedy, you want to be as...

I was always taught how to dress for the occasion.

So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.'

Everybody has something they love to do. Do that thing.

Food is kind of the conduit that brings people together.

The thing for me is that my natural state is to be reserved and not share.