I think romance is a tool comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer move people make you laugh perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19 yukking it up.

After making several tragic movies in a row I was looking to do a comedy and one without cynicism.

I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing and dancing and comedy in the morning.

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy so that's where I started that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up but a comedy in long-shot.

Life is a dream for the wise a game for the fool a comedy for the rich a tragedy for the poor.