I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.

People always ask me 'Were you funny as a child?' Well no I was an accountant.

Sixth grade was a big time in my childhood of hoops and friendship and coming up with funny things.

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now although when I was a kid I was always hungry.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys another sells and both think they are astute.

You know Stephen says in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom and he turned it into this nightmare you know your worst fear of what's in there.

It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always used to say 'Do you shop at Home Depot?' or 'Does your kid go to such and such school?' They want to know why they know me even if they don't know my name. I don't think that's a bad thing by the way I think it's nice to be kind of anonymously famous.

I think it's really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It's funny to me that we're expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I'm famous?

I follow the most random people on Twitter. I follow famous people like Khloe Kardashian who surprisingly makes really funny tweets all the time.

It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame but they don't have the money to hide from it.

I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other particularly my two brothers and myself when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh you were in trouble!

People just don't laugh when their family is violated and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny primitive instinct.

I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.

It's not common for a woman on television especially if she's the mom of the family to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

I guess now that I think back I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers and I grew up in a very funny conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well he has a lovely wife and family a beautiful home money in the bank and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?

I realized my family was funny because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.

I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.

Success is always less funny than failure.

I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny because when we found out we were pregnant I said 'Okay let's experience that.' You just have to just go with it because it's rare.

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience what things are funny and not.