[On Lisa Kudrow:] She's like the best kind of jazz there is. You don't know what note she's going to hit and it's always a surprise.

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.

My father says that almost the whole world is asleep, everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement.

Women are socialized to be nice, to be docile. I call it 'shrink to fit': Shrink yourself to fit what others expect of you.

And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

I am convinced, completely convinced, that there was nothing random about [the adoption], she is the daughter I should have.