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I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.
Been sitting at home all weekend writing for MTV Movie Awards - unfortunately MTV won't let me do my strip routine ala Magic Mike.
There is something about sex that always brings out the funny in me. I think it's because we make such fools of ourselves over it.
I knew what my scripts would say before I opened them: 'Enter Conchita.' I played handmaidens, Indian squaws, and Mexican dancers.
I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.
Before I latched onto the concept of stereotypes, not once did I reckon with the fact that I would never be a 'Hollywood starlet.'
There's always going to be someone who hates you. There's always going to be people who love you. It's a risk in either direction.
There's a very fine line between political comedian and activist, and I don't really think I fall over into the activist category.
I don't feel intimidated by any of the people I'm talking to or the situations I find myself in. I just try to make my nana proud.
It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.
I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so I got both sides.
I love a lot of comedy actors and actresses like Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey and all those women who are really brilliant and funny.
I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known.
Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're special and that we're still here.
I get inspired by creativity, when people are together. You know what I mean, there's a certain synergy when people work together.
George Clooney is a super-human, he's just such an amazing human being, he taught me how to be a better person and a better actor!
I have never had anything done. I've been asked if I had breast implants. Whether I did or not, it's nobody's business but my own.
I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it's acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all.
I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.
I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts.
I see a cute guy in Starbucks and I'm like... 'Oh, okay,' and I walk out. But who knows? Maybe I will ask somebody on a date soon!
I'm a fan of things I can get done fast! It feels awesome because it heats up in your hand, and leaves your skin tingly and clean.
To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated.
We did receive some questions about the film's [Aquarius] sexuality in Cannes, but they came from the press rather than audiences.
I work when I feel like I can do something that pleases me, that I think I can give a little more than I've given up to yesterday.
I utterly respect that there are lots of people who do service jobs and deserve our respect, because they make our world function.
When I'm on the set at 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,' of course the content isn't funny, but the other actors are hilarious.
When you run into someone in NY it is usually a pleasant surprise. When you run into someone in LA you usually had a car accident.
I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.
Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
Just because 'Planes' is an animated movie doesn't mean I don't take my work seriously. You can always push yourself to be better.
I never went to a high school prom. I went to a junior high prom, but I never had the high school prom. It was all fake and on TV.
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 can't wait to see The Grinch. It's so out of the world. Every time a movie like that comes out, I'm stoked. It's like real life.
Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me.
If I could adopt any zoo animal, it would be a giraffe. I have always loved giraffes. They are so graceful and beautiful to watch.
My goal is to make space for my selfhood. All of it. All of me, not just the parts I like or think that others like but all of it.
After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me.
Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.
The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
I think the older you get, the more 'let's cut to the chase' you get, 'let's quit quibbling about this, let's tell it like it is.'
If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.
At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.
Now clear your minds. It knows what scares you. It has from the very beginning. Don't give it any help, it knows too much already.
I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.
When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.