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"There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place."

"I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized."

"I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy."

"Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities."

"At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy."
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"Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that."

"Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out."

"I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person."

"Christina Ricci is amazing, the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action, she's right there."

"We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights."

"On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom."

"Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with."

"I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair."

"One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me."
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