I started out in stand-up when I was 18, which is really masochistic, and I did it really till I started going in movies. I did it for about three years out in LA.

It's fun to be loose. Just like on stage, all of your great ideas come from looseness.

It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are.

I want to start a trend of women as we really look. Some good things, some not so good. I am tired of looking at frozen faces.

I think that we definitely deal with that issue and don't ignore it, the issue of drink, but that's not where it ends. I just think that what the fear is that you think alcoholic writer or whatever and you forget the intelligence that can be present. I mean so many people just write off someone who drinks as one thing.

I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.