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There is a constant flow of child actors. It is kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You are going to have to struggle for a long time.

It is funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

When I was in college, I was in the theater department, which for anyone who has been involved in any kind of theater program, you know that it is really wacky and tight-knit, a real family. Me and my good friends from college would do random shows and plays that were sometimes serious, but most of the time really goofy and funny.

With Portlandia, I do not think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We are okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it is a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That is it. That is the only requirement.

It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.

I think it is always funny when somebody thinks you are going to do something super sexy and then you do not.

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that is funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there is all kinds of advantages to it.

It is funny what a year can do.

It is funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It is not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.

Movies do not look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it is creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it Does not mean I know how to fix them.

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents do not realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

What's funny is my husband Does not have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they do not care about the genre.

What I fell in love with as a child was My Fair Lady, Funny Face, American in Paris, and Singin in the Rain. Just perfect movies to me and I was dancing. I started ballet when I was three. And I fell in love with those movies and fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it is funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.