After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.
I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.
To me, the good thing about living in L.A. is diversity in lifestyle choices, color, and religion.
There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.
I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.
I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know.
The universe, it balances. It makes sure you don't get a head that's too big. I love it.
Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.
There's something sexy about a gut. Not a 400-pound beer gut, but a little paunch. I love that.
Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.
I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.
Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one of our most precious, historic communities: visually, emotionally, artistically.
I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.
The good mamas are often tough mamas.
Makeup is scary. When I do it myself, it's just mascara, and sometimes I forget even to do that.
I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written.
I'm simply the mom who makes the lunch, drives to school, finds where the toys are, washes the clothes, and I'm here to play. And that's all I should be.
I think everything is going to be devastatingly sad - when the phone rings, I know somebody in my family's been hurt, somebody's going to die. I'm sure a therapist would go, 'That's not a good way to live,' but every time it's not that bad thing, I'm so thankful and appreciative.
I was always incredibly driven and found it impossible to relax. I felt that if I slacked off for a minute to enjoy myself, then so many things would be missed.
Once you learn how to say no, that's about the only place that you'll have control of your work and what you do.
There is a difference between executive producing and producing. Producing, you have no life for two years. You take everything personally, you want to kill everyone, you're depressed and angry, and then in the end you feel excited when it actually works. But executive producing, you can go home at the end of the day.
Sure, I've done movies in which I was embarrassed by my performance, or might not have cared for a co-star. Then I'd have to tell lies, like, 'Oh, we love each other; everything was perfect!'
If a film is not a success, then that's just the way things are. Nothing I can do can make a difference. I have stopped worrying about it.
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'
Y'know, every relationship is different. There are good marriages, bad marriages, connected partners, unconnected partners.
I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.
I used to get out of bed sometimes and feel depressed and watched a lot of reruns on TV to get over it. I should have allowed myself to be a little more human and not worry about trying to be a superwoman.
Would I like to go into space? No. Maybe I'd do it when I'm old and have done everything else on this planet.
I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level.
I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin.
You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.
Every single second of every single day... I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?'
I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican.
I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people who can argue well.
Getting into television was a total fluke.
The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention.