You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live.'

It's such a fortunate life, if you can work as an actor.

I don't like expectations.

For the most part, there's so much of me in my characters.

I'm generally a pretty friendly person.

It's very challenging to learn something new as an adult.

For the most part, having more money and more fame make your life harder. It just does. I've seen it happen with people. You know, it's so hard to stay normal. It's so hard to stay happy. It's hard to remember why you were doing what you did in the first place.

People still go to Comic-Con because they love comics.

I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it was mortifying. You felt dirty for them. But now it's perfectly acceptable to read something like that. There's absolutely no taboo surrounding that kind of exploitation.

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

I feel like there is this weird thing where celebrity involvement in political campaigns kind of goes together like peanut butter and chocolate. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad.

I kind of understand now why people freak out when they see celebrities that they love, because that's how I feel about every single Muppet.

I really like the relaxed glamour of the '70s.

To me, it's really easy to feel glamorous and beautiful with red lips. It's great because you don't have to do anything else. I don't have to do anything to my face. I can have cleanly washed hair and if I just put on like a matte red lip, it just makes everything seem special.

Mom is the most unconditionally loving person I will ever know, and she has always supported me on every level.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

My first love, I'll never forget, and it's such a big part of who I am, and in so many ways, we could never be together, but that doesn't mean that it's not forever. Because it is forever.

Timing is everything with relationships.

Well, dating has become a sport and not about finding the person you love.

My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it's because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.

I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.

In my twenties I would be skeptical of a bad haircut, but once you turn thirty it's more about whether he a nice person and does he open the door for me. Once you turn thirty-five, it's more about would he make a good father. And even if you're just liking somebody and digging on someone, I think you can't help but think in those terms.

I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'

I think there's just an inherent burden of being alive and being a woman. No man would ever admit that, but I think women know it, which is: You know more than men, you know more than most people you're dealing with every day, and you know that's it up to you to make things move forward, and you get paid half as much, but you just do it.

If I can surround myself with hilarious people every day, I will always want to go to work.

My mother and I are more than best friends; we are partners in crime. After she and my father, Quincy Jones, separated when I was 10 years old, my sister, Kidada, who was 12, went to live with our dad, and I stayed with my mother.

Good rom-coms have some reflection of the way things are, the sign of the times.

Streaking through a large crowd has always been a secret fantasy of mine.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

I'm terrified of performing live.

For the most part, it is really nice when people come up to me, because I do think that people who are awkward relate to me, and that's really nice. It's generally good.

I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.

I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.

I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don't have to depend on a man to do the things they needed them to do, whether it was hunting or lifting heavy things, so what's a man's place now? Who knows!

I've always dreamt of having some sort of undercover job. I think it's probably the coolest thing in the world, but ultimately a very lonely life.

My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.

Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.

You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.

I have a father who came from nothing and conquered the world. The last thing I'm going to do is sit here and spend his money and try to look pretty. That's not interesting to me at all.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

Women tend to double-speak - I'm definitely guilty of that.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

You can never stop discovering music.

Music breaks my heart constantly.

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.