Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

I rarely get the "Annie Hall" references other than from people who are aficionados of movies, people who really care about movies. But in general, people don't even think about it.

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.

What's interesting about Topher [Grace] to me was, he's playing a 29-year-old virgin, which was really kind of hard for me to believe in real life, you get my drift? I mean, that was really not possible. And somehow he pulled it off.

I don't carry little purses. I carry big duffels, always.

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.