I think the best thing I ever did was, years before I got the 'Late Night' show, when I first got out to Los Angeles to be a television writer, the first thing I did was I signed up to take improvisational classes... And I studied that for years, and I really loved it.

After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine.

I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles.

I met Michael Milken for the first time with Oliver Stone at the Drexel Burnham offices in Los Angeles.

I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.

Wherever I go, people ask: 'What is she? What is she?' There has always been an agenda - they're excluding me or including me in something with that question. It is the first thing agents in Los Angeles ask me. And then I'd hear: 'You're not black enough, you're too black, you're Italian - no, you're Spanish.'