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The comedians who I admire that are really good, they always take it to a deep psychological place.

I waved to you outside but then I realized it was just one of those inflatable parking lot gorillas.

I love that there are all these macho guy actors out there that have secret desires to be on 'Glee.'

I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.

I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

I'm fascinated by Greta Garbo. My cat's named Greta, and I have a framed photograph of her from 1949.

Standing by myself, just having everybody looking at me the entire time, is not my idea of a good time.

I was a huge 'Friends' fan. I had a very small part. I played a real-estate agent in the very last season.

I spent so much of my younger life drinking, and being drunk makes learning to be a grown-up kind of hard.

I get the male thing. I like being that for a woman. But I also like being a woman, too. I like being girly.

You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.

I'm like Jay Gatsby. I like to throw the party and then stand back, looking gorgeous. Stand back and watch it.

There are still parts of the country where it's hard: when you realize you're gay, it's like a death sentence.

No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.

I'm kind of a manic exerciser. I'll like exercise for a week and be crazy, and then I won't do it for six months.

When I'm not feeling good about how I look, I figure if I just buy the right piece of clothing, I'll feel all right.

I have a big family. Even though it's only three kids in our family, it's always aunts and uncles and the whole thing.

A lot of the songs in 'See Jane Sing!' are pulled straight from the kitchen table and my parents harmonizing together.

I have to admit that I was a little nervous when I showed up for my first official 'Wreck-It Ralph' recording session.

There's this weird kind of coming-in-from-left-field thing going on, and I love it - I am a huge fan of Christopher Durang.

Don’t deprive yourself of the exciting journey your life can be when you relinquish the need to have goals and a blueprint.

I wanted to - any chance I had to dress up as a boy, like Halloween, I would be a pirate or a ghost that wore a tie. A hobo.

I didn't want to be gay. I wanted to be... I wanted an easy life. And you know what? I am gay, and I still have an easy life.

Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.

I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition for myself.

That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

I try not to plan ahead. I just kind of try to think in the moment. I always believe everything will work out the way it's supposed to.

But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.

I think a little tidbit I can give you is that I grew up with basically everything handed to me, except for my career. I worked for that.

I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.

The world, universe, God, whatever you call it, has so much more in store if you just sit back and relax and do what's right in front of you.

If you're contriving something, if you're making something up, it's not funny. You can tell. It's instant. It has to come from someplace real.

I'm a character actress, and my particular brand is more mature, so I had to wait until my age caught up with the tricks in my little arsenal.

When I look back, I think I must have been hugely motivated. I would have loved for somebody to say, 'You go for it!' I just didn't have that.

You know 'Ninotchka?' I recommend it. It's kind of a mess, too. It was before, you know, we got slick editing tools, so it kind of chops along.

In Chicago, actors start up companies and get together and produce things, and there's a really rich, vibrant non-Equity theater scene out there.

Will Ferrell in 'Talladega Nights.' He's a very generous performer. He's kind of just one of the guys, but his name happens to be above the title.

Television is really fertile ground, and it's because of platforms like Netflix and Hulu and, of course, the cable channels like HBO and Showtime.

I love being in these ensemble comedy movies. I love working with a bunch of people and coming up with, you know, How can we make this moment funnier?

I've always sung. My dad had a song in his heart and on his lips 24/7. A lot of the time, it was the same song and the same phrase over and over again.

When you raise your voice in song to express what's going on deep inside of you, I think people just react to that because it's so truthful. It's so raw.

I grew up in a Southside suburb of Chicago. It was idyllic. But I was plunked into a family that was not artistic and didn't know how to deal with my emotions.

Making people laugh is a really fabulous thing because it means you're getting deep inside somebody, into their psyche, and their ability to look at themselves.

You just have to decide how close you want them. Not every person in your life needs to be your best friend: some can be friends or just friendly acquaintances.

One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older; I am, in fact, at this very moment, gaining my looks.

Everybody has their own way to deal with it. I don't concern myself with other people's - whether or not they want to come out, it's not something for me think about.

I loved working with Cybill Shepherd. We had a good time together; we enjoyed being girlfriends. It was a real comfortable fit for us. I loved putting on a suit and tie.

I try to dress the bottom I have. The body I have and the bottom I have. I have the intention of looking fabulous every time, and I care about it a great deal. I'm very vain.

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