Actress Quotes

Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it. You can't fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can't go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.

Dave Chappelle asked me to come do his show. I read the script, and I said, 'Has he lost his mind?'

As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.

After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.

We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.

There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it.

The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?

It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.

I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.

I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.

I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me.So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far.

I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

I believe in giving back.

I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.

For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.

Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

I think they look upon me as an old child, because I'm so little.

Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.

You can do anything you want to do.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had all my lines memorized. Once I had movement associated with words, it was fine. Before I had blocking, it was just text on a page. Once it became embodied, it was much easier.

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it.

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.

I think as an actress, I prefer having a character on the page. It allows you to be more invested in actually creating a whole person. It's easier when you're not trying to come up with your next line on the spot.

I loved dance.