An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?

Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.

You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

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

I found the recording sessions very freeing because you can really try things. When you're filming something, if you're improvising a film and you're wasting film and wasting a cameraman's time.

It's a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go. You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it...You have to let people see what you wrote.