The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.

I've found that most people who studied when they were little, even if they never took another tap class, it's percussive, so it stays in your body, the muscle memory of it.

I started in improv and went into different kinds of things.

I'm a very musical person.

I write music as a staff writer for Universal Music Group, and I have since 2007. I've never talked about it publicly because I wanted to earn the right to be in the same room as the great writers I write with and not shoot my mouth off because I'm an actor. It's really important to me, and I really care about it.

Do I feel like I still need to prove myself? Absolutely. And I want to feel that way, and I like that.

I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern.

There are no worse cliches than southern cliches. They make my skin crawl.

I remember when I was growing up and watching southern people depicted on television, I thought, 'Well, based on what I'm seeing, I guess I'm supposed to be stupid and racist.' It's still, sadly, the easy route for a writer to go.

'Step Brothers' is probably the film the most people who approach me want to talk about.

I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially.

Wii on Nintendo is amazing.

I love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business.

There's a certain freedom that comes when people don't expect you to be sexy.

We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen.

As an actor, you're always looking for, what do I get to do? It's not just what do I say, but what do I do, too.

I did 'Philadelphia' and 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' at the same time. It's kind of wonderful to do it that way, because you get very hyper-focused.

I was excited to turn 60.

Essential oils are extremely important to me.

At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'

Hey, it's a miracle to have a career in Hollywood. But it doesn't begin to sum me up.

'Justified' had such dead-on beautiful scripts that you didn't want to mess with it.

Will Forte is such a nice, extraordinarily creative human being. Utterly fearless.

I don't want to go to just watch big huge summer movies that everybody predicts is going to be the big huge summer movie and that are all the sort of blow-them-up movies or whatever you want to call them. I think there are a lot of other people out there, too, that want an alternative.

My agents and managers deserve a special Emmy award for scheduling.

I've had a great time doing it - being able to say yes to a couple of amazing shows.

There's just a total boatload of crazy that goes with singing live for the first time when you're 60 years old.

I'm a late bloomer.

I have hundreds of songs.

I don't consider myself much of a singer. I'm a writer first.

Life is about surviving loss.

I learned not to care what other people think.

I wanted a relationship like the one my mother and father had. It wasn't perfect; they had to work on it. But there was an unbelievable mutual respect.

I learned so much about life and other human beings - then about myself.

What a mother I am. I can't even make popcorn.

Anytime I had a date, it was at the Sadie Hawkins Day dance.

New York had this wild beat that anybody could dance to. It was very nurturing to young people.

1977 is the year I made my first movie. Shortly after, I was offered quite nice roles in television. The general consensus among everyone was that I'd be out of my mind to do that.

I don't know if I've ever read a movie that's as strange and unpredictable and hilarious and wonderful as the stuff we're doing on 'The Last Man on Earth.' It's jaw-dropping every week when I get a script, because it goes to such strange places.

I like being part of a team.

I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom.

We're all very fond of a black box in our living room that works on diminishment of images, that spoons somebody up in a very limited way. It can be a reduction at its worst.

Every child in America fantasizes about running wild in the White House for a few minutes.

I wasn't making any money, but I didn't feel unsuccessful because of that. You can do that in New York but not in Hollywood. In Hollywood, it is how much money you make.

I didn't work for a year and a half after 'Melvin and Howard' because all I was being offered was silly parts.

I've chosen all my films very carefully. I know that I've had better parts in some films than in others. But the films I do are the ones I want to see when I read the screenplays. I guess you can basically say that I've just done things I loved when I read them.

I don't worry when I go away for a while. I think there is a place for me. It may not be at the top of the heap. But that doesn't bother me, either. I think I will always be able to get work - which is the only thing I have ever really been interested in.

I think the secret to what Jim Henson did, ultimately, is that he understood how to cut through to the... I know this sounds corny... but the child inside of you.

Acting was far from my world. I rarely saw a play. I never met a real actress; they seemed unreal.

I had two wonderful teachers: Sanford Melsner and Fred Kareman.