career Quotes

"When you host a show you have to hopefully be funny at the top and set the tone for a really fun evening."

"Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men."

"You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control."

"I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one... ...

"Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented."

"I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV."

"If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else."

"Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what... ...

"It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people."

"Ang Lee's been nominated for best director for "Life of Pi," which is what I'm going to call the six weeks after I take this dress off."