Everybody has the right to marry the person they love and be represented as a couple and family... It's something that people will look back on in years to come and say, 'I can't believe it took so long for us to recognize this.' It'll be like segregation and giving women the right to vote.

The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

When you become a parent, you finally appreciate and understand what your mother did.

I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an outdoor person. I would win the summer reading contest at the library.

If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to be able to make both of you happy.

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

I don't really care if people like a character ornot; I think in life we don't always like everybody. But you haveto be able to understand them.