I often think if you have time to sit around the house feeling bad for yourself, you have time to tutor a child. I'm guilty of that exact thing. I will spend more time sitting around feeling bad for myself than actually helping somebody.

The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.

Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.

Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.

As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way.

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and look for an emotional connection even if there is not a biographical one.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

In 'Zombieland,' it was such a freewheeling plot it almost didn't matter what the characters were doing scene to scene as long as there was a consistent banter.

I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.

Nothing is harder than working with an actor who doesn't take it seriously or show up in the same way that you are.

The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they're not so interested in other people.

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it.

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

You don't realize it until you go out and take a look, but there are so many ways in which sexism is just allowed in our culture, not just in the entertainment industry. It's just allowed to be there, and that's not acceptable anymore. And I think it's really important to be very vocal.

I always wanted to be a children's author, and I have a really big library of children's books. All the ones from when I was little, they are just so beautiful. I read kids' books, and they calm me down.

My grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much.

I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy, and I think it's better suited somewhere it can run free.

Don't use a pick-up line.

I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.

I think, in general, finding the right time to have a baby is pretty scary.

I loved pretending to be a middle-aged Jewish woman. I just wanted to do what I saw Gilda Radner and Carol Burnett doing. But I'm not a particularly good impressionist. It was never my strong suit.