Don't tell girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that they couldn't. It's like saying, 'Hey, when you get in the shower, I'm not gonna read your diary.' 'Wait--are you gonna read my diary?' 'No! I said I'm not gonna read your diary. Go take a shower!'

Look at the people who are kind of the funniest cultures, they're the cultures of the people who have been the most oppressed, black people and Jews. Not that they're the only funny people, but culturally, it comes from the pain, you know?

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

I am 39 years old, and I still wake up every morning really excited I don't have to go to school.

Guess what, Martin Luther King? I had a dream, too.

The audience works as such a mob. They either all laugh or all don't laugh, and, you know, changes from audience to audience.

The worst thing that can happen for people who don't want women to be strong is that we help each other and become a force.