"I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?"

"My favorite is doing the television show, as a variety show, every week. If the show wasn't that great one week, we could always come back and apologize, you know?"

"Steve Martin in 'All of Me,' when he did that whole thing where he was possessed by the spirit in his body? It was brilliant."

"Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that."

"I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?"

"Who wouldn't want to go back home to play?"

"If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?"

"Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities."

"If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers."

"There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths."

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

"I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?"

"I'm a salty, greasy girl. I give every french fry a fair chance. Could you just lay some lard in my belly?"

"First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst."

"Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are."

"People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?"

"Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return to the moon? Or have we blazed that trail? Shouldn't we help other nations achieve this goal with their own resources but with our help?"

"Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!"

"There are many people talking about access to space and, 'How can we make that cheaper? How can we turn that into a Southwest Airlines versus the big airlines?'"

“He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?”

"You call yesterday the past?"

“Among their first questions was said to be: Where are the women?” 

Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged its identity based on culture. I mean, the amount of artists living and working in Berlin is unparalleled. It's one of the strongest economies, not only in Europe, but globally, and it's because of its understanding of the importance of culture.

Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know.