“Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time.”

Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick – she never has to wait for someone to choose her.

I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I’m always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how to engage the senses.

Taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.

I’ve learned one important lesson in my life, and I’m going to share it with you.

I’m very organized – and the best thing – when you love your work.

You don’t mind putting in 15 hour days. It’s joyful.

The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.

The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else,

I love actors and I love to create an environment where they feel safe to connect and thrive and try things.

Some artists never see their work in front of an audience.

Women move through the world never knowing their power.

With full knowledge that the person you married has agreed.

We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a leap.

I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.

I don’t have anything against organized religions, except when they engender hatred for other religions.

I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.

Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.

Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.

Let me tell you, you can paint pictures and get people indicted for just about anything.

I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.

They didn’t really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything.

I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do.