Carl Reiner is perfection.

I like regular meals and restaurants that will adapt things to your taste. Not a place where they roll their eyes if you want the sauce on the side.

Restaurants in Chicago are seldom disappointing.

Chicago has definitely played a part in my character development. I love the essence of the city, the personalities of the people, the hard-working spirit that you need to get through the winters. And every neighborhood has its great restaurants and the local hot-dog stand.

The thing about Pixar, they don't do the 'trend is your friend.' They're really about timeless story telling, and that's pretty great.

Anything Pixar does, you know, I really just am in awe of them and thrilled to be included in anything they do.

I wanted to be a story teller so badly.

When I first landed at Pixar, I felt like I found this creative oasis with John Lasseter... It's what you thought Hollywood was going to be.

My home is in Chicago, but I have an apartment in Los Angeles.

When I was in high school, I hid in the back seat of an old boyfriend's car when he was out with another girl. He finally found me, but not until after he had made out with her for an hour.

In my neighborhood growing up, 8, 10,12 kids were the norm. Those stay-at-home moms would handle so much physically and emotionally. Even in my early teens, I could tell those ladies were something.

Humor is very healing.

If I couldn't be Dick Van Dyke, I wanted to be Art Carney.

All my brothers and sisters are really witty, and I would just sit back and enjoy them.

I remember, when I was 7, my dad found a pregnant dog on the railroad track one day and brought her home. So my mom explained about how this dog was married but that her husband had passed away - she didn't want me to even think that a dog could have babies without being married.

Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.

I don't write punch lines.

I don't understand the rewarding of behavior that is less than classy. I don't get it.

I'm right on the edge of getting another movie. It's between me and a famous person. The studio said they're thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, 'That's great! Because I have one!'

I live in this apartment building, and everybody who lives there thinks of me as a housewife. People drop their babies off with me. Or I get notes: 'I'm going to be gone for three days. The keys are under the mat; take care of the cats.' Because they all think I'm home all the time.

I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.

I thought of school as a captive audience. It gave me a chance to work on my material.

I was a good kid.

Everybody knows when you're a struggling family; you don't really know it when you're a kid. But you do know the difference between stress and moments of relief where there's, like, this happiness.