We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

Probably we should let Hillary [Clinton] play the role she was destined to play all by herself first.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.

I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb.

Sometimes you look out the window and you look at all the windows, and think inside very single one of them is somebody with some huge, weird, terrible problem, some great jokes.