Quotes from Julia Louis-Dreyfus

I've actually considered going with my married name, Julia Hall, but all the paperwork.

I always wanted to perform.

Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.

If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.

The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.

Keeping a sense of humor about life. My parents divorced when I was 8, and whenever I felt down, my mom would remind me that a sense of humor gets you through just about anything.

There is tremendous inequity in Hollywood and politics, and I would say globally it's challenging to be a woman and succeed.

I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that.

When I got pregnant my foot grew, but I was denying it. I've been denying it for three years.

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.

And Seinfeld is so quick: we crank out one show a week, and the hours are very reasonable.

There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show.

We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world.

If I have chocolate around, I will eat it. I love it, I love it, I love it. I like a piece every day.

Even my great grand-mother did impressions.

Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.

If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.

Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person.

I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair.

I dropped out of college my junior year to do Saturday Night Live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice.

The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.