In conclusion, I invite the media to all grow a pair. And if you can't, I will lend you mine.

If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.

You have to remember that goodbyes are temporary because no one ever really leaves and nothing lasts forever. People are always with us, because they are in our hearts and in our memory. The only thing we can depend on is change... Life is just a series of moments -- a string of pearls that make up the necklace of your life and so every once in a while, to complete the circle, you need to end a chapter.

[At Boston College] I started working on the kinds of skills that you need for comedy. It's about being creative and learning to use your gift for being able to let loose and be very unself-conscious. It took me time though before I was really able to get comfortable doing that.

What I like about all these giant superhero movies is that they speak to the issues that I'm dealing with - working mother and time management and how to be an interesting, sexual, curious woman in your 40s.

I get a little itchy if I don't have some control.

Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.