Quotes About Connection

I feel like if I'm going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my dad, because he is interesting and he is funny and if you're buying a book about him, I don't want you to have to sit through stuff that's not him.

I like buying people little things, not flooding them with money, trying to win them.

When people ask where I'm from, I tell them Washington, because that's where I feel the most comforted by the people.

I feel like there's no one kind of person who comes to my shows. Sometimes I've been surprised by the people who will stop me on the street to tell me that they're into my music.

You can say something, make something, and be rewarded for it by the people you're speaking to.

People don't use Airbnb overtly to trust people more. They use it because they want to get a better sense of the culture and to save money. A by-product was that they live in someone else's shoes.

I met my wife in 1990 when I was on the national tour of 'Bye, Bye Birdie.'

I'll never say good bye to TV. I belong there.

I really love Death Cab.

Everybody's got cable.

When the kids were growing up, we didn't have a television in the house connected to a cable or an antenna. If something bad happened in the world, I wanted the kids to hear about it from me.

I love watching other women when I'm sitting at a cafe.

If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

More than any other place, New York is where I felt I belonged. I prefer the Lower East Side to any place on the planet. I can be who I am there, and I couldn't do that anywhere I lived as a child. I never fit in when I lived in California, even though that's where my roots are.

I'm very 'one love.' I think that's the Californian girl in me.

I was the one who was always calling people.

I'm really taken with 'Calling Me Home' by Alice Gerrard.

It's like, when RuPaul calls, I answer.

My three children keep me calm.

Stroking my dog calms me down.

There is nothing better than having people around you who make you feel special, make you feel calm, make you feel normal.

It is so calming, marriage.

In theatre, there is a camaraderie that makes you believe you've been working with your co-actor for a long time.