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We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

I was an abused kid.

You should be able to tell your child, "This is an actor. And she's older than Mommy!"

My life goal is not to ruin anyone's existence. I'm a comic.

What I'm hoping to do and what I think I will do is make an entertaining enjoyable show where the whole family can sit down and watch.

I don't think it negates your skills as a parent if you're homosexual.

I'd rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else's.

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.

I am one of the haunted.

I believe that God has a plan, and it's your job to show up with an open heart.

We really did. We got married.

I don't want only a career.

I remember thinking, 'I don't know if I can do radio.' I never even listen to it.

The teachers in America need to be applauded every day because they save the lives of kids!

Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America

Well, you know, they use those words so that they can scare people "terror" and "cell."

The Second Amendment is not really a right.

Anybody that you put on TV five hours a week is at some point is going to say something stupid.

I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?

I know I'm a really good mother. I know it. I'm a really good mother.

Mass adulation from the multitudes does not penetrate your soul or your core.

Every time that I hear the orchestra tuning up, I get chills all over my body. You know, catharsis after catharsis. It's better than sex!

I couldn't imagine doing a show where I'd once again have to answer to corporate interests.

I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where you're the total boss of everything!

I know, people were like, "It's all right that she's gay, but she doesn't have to look so gay." Trust me - I'm never cutting my hair again!

And it never, ever was interpreted that the Second Amendment meant individual's right to bear arms

I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.

It's probably my favorite part of my whole showbiz experience, is Broadway. The community of Broadway. That feeling that happens every night.

I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why 3x = 2y/4.

Without art there is no hope.

I don't like to go to premieres or openings. I don't like to have to put on makeup.

I think life is easier if you're straight.

Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.

I love to be able to support other women comics.

I went to seven colleges. I was a professional transfer student. I had to drop out 'cause I couldn't see out the back window.

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

I think Democracy is threatened in a way it hasn't been in two hundred years, and if America doesn't stand up, we're in big trouble.

Nothing happens by chance.

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.

Every kid should sit in the velvet at least once in their lifetime.

The gray has gone away. I am living in bright Technicolor.

I'm sure I will cause tremendous seismic shifts in the culture again.

I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.

If you fall in love with someone gay and you're the opposite gender, it's not going to work.

Are you fat because you're a lesbian, or are you a lesbian because you're fat?

I'd love to be a dead body in the emergency room and have George Clooney go, 'This one's gone!' while he puts a sheet on me.

I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.

I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals.

I don't think you choose whether or not you're gay.

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

You can imagine in China it's like: 'Ching chong hugong, ching chong kong, Danny Devito. Ching chong chong chong chong. The View. Ching chong!

Maybe compassion is compulsion, creativity is insanity. If this is so, then is craziness a good thing, the source of our humanity?

I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.

I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.