I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies.

My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They had stuff to do.

When I was growing up, I didn't do plays in downtown Boston, and my parents weren't putting me in auditions. They never thought, Oh, she has a gift! They never thought of me as an entertainer when I was a young kid.

Why wear white? It's like, forget about dropping something on it. I don't understand how anybody wears white.

There wasn't a big tradition of comedy at Dartmouth. More than that, there wasn't really anything artsy going on in Hanover, or even in New Hampshire. The cool thing about the school is that there's nothing for people to watch, so if you were to do a play or a sketch or an improv troupe, it was always packed. There's nowhere else for anyone to go. But there was no comedy.

I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement but I don't beat myself up over it.

Truthfully, I guess I would like to be remembered as a great writer and a kind person. I wouldn't mind if an expensive bag were named after me, like Jane Birkin.