"When you're doing sketch comedy and you're..." - Quote by Amy Poehler

“I find my relationships at 40-plus are really emulsified, juicy relationships because you have more of a sense of who you are and who you want to be around.”

“Creativity is connected to passion - that light inside that drives you.”

“I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. So let's peek behind the curtain and hail the others like us. The open-faced sandwiches who take risks and live big and smile with all of their teeth. These are the people I want to be around. This is the honest way I want to live and love and write.”

“You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.”

“He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.”

“Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.”

“The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.”

“I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little kids they want to play, and I don't have time for that."”

“An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?”