The thing about Pixar, they don't do the 'trend is your friend.' They're really about timeless story telling, and that's pretty great.
I am a storyteller, and I take great pride in the storytelling and a great joy.
I really appreciate the everyday stuff as far as material.
Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.
I live in this apartment building, and everybody who lives there thinks of me as a housewife. People drop their babies off with me. Or I get notes: 'I'm going to be gone for three days. The keys are under the mat; take care of the cats.' Because they all think I'm home all the time.
Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?
I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school.
I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.
Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.
I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.
When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.
But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.
Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.
I've been so fortunate in my career and my own life just to have all these opportunities, and the talk show has always been one of my favorite formats.
I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.
Everybody knows when you're a struggling family; you don't really know it when you're a kid. But you do know the difference between stress and moments of relief where there's, like, this happiness.
I was a good kid.
I thought of school as a captive audience. It gave me a chance to work on my material.
I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.
I'm right on the edge of getting another movie. It's between me and a famous person. The studio said they're thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, 'That's great! Because I have one!'
