Over time, you realize that even the things that are most high stakes kind of resolve themselves.

I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'

The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You get a real sense of a human being.

I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

Your trade becomes very much impacted by the quality of your life experiences and your capacity to process them.

If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

There's something great about all your worst fears coming true and being said about you. There's a tremendous liberation on some level.