I don't think you can ever assess your work. I don't think Turgenev could assess his any more than I can assess mine, and his didn't have a social impact as much as great literary impact.

Morals are private. Decency is public.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn't marry my husband to have children. I married my husband because I love my husband.

Comedy can become quite addictive actually.

With any character I play, I gravitate to the juxtaposition and humor.