How could I have been a wife, a MOTHER and a SINGER? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the WORLD? Your children would not CALL you 'Mama,' but 'Renata.'

Creativity is much better when it's free. SOMEONE can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a LABEL. If you COULD make your MUSIC and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the BEST scenario.

I feel like I grew up being babysat by a TELEVISION, and all I ever wanted to do was be in movies, direct movies, MAKE movies, but it took me a really long time to be honest with myself about it because my BACKGROUND is that my FAMILY was very poor.

I am immensely PROUD of my IRISH ROOTS.

I STOPPED watching sports because I didn't want to watch someone running up and down the FIELD making millions and I'm not doing ANYTHING about it. That methodology MADE me go harder and take control of my career.

I am flippant. That's one of my CHARMS.

If you're going to lose weight, you have to do it by CHANGING your WAY of THINKING about food. It cannot be the HIGHLIGHT of your LIFE.

You are not just a FUNNY person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a SMART OPINION and a GREAT sense of humor.

I've LEARNED to TAKE jobs as an actress that is MEANINGFUL to me because I've never taken a JOB for the money.

There's this idea in America that you can be whatever you WANT. That remains an ideal in TERMS of how you dress too - when you go SHOPPING, you try on all possible selves and then decide.