there was an assumption that I was personally attacking Sarah Palin by impersonating her on TV. No one ever said it was 'mean' when Chevy Chase played Gerald Ford falling down all the time. No one ever accused Dana Carvey or Darrell Hammond or Dan Aykroyd of 'going too far' in their political impressions. You see what I'm getting at here. I am not mean and Mrs. Palin is not fragile. To imply otherwise is a disservice to us both.

My parents raised me that you never ask people about their reproductive plans. “You don’t know their situation,” my mom would say. I considered it such an impolite question that for years I didn’t even ask myself. Thirty-five turned into forty faster than McDonald’s food turns into cold nonfood.

(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)

Life is improvisation. All of those [improv] classes were like church to me. The training had seeped into me and changed who I am.

I believe in process. I believe that having a really difficult process is more valuable than a good outcome.

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

I was like, oh, I want to sign up for "Catwoman," and then Anne Hathaway had already signed up for it.