Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.

The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.

My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.

You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.

Reforms ensure that everybody benefits and the state generates financial resources to provide for the really deserving.

Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.

The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.