Daisy Donovan Quotes

Every girl wants to play Bridget Jones.

To me, it wasn't 'Star Wars' that shaped me; it was more 'Mary Tyler Moore' and, nowadays, 'Louie' and 'Girls.'

I love 'Girls' on HBO because it's brave and cool.

I loved Lena Dunham's 'Girls.'

I've been thinking a lot about Lady Gaga and what she means for feminism. I think - I find her completely fascinating, and I really like what she has to say.

I think 'Girls' is pretty brilliant.

Popular culture is filled with girls.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

'Thelma & Louise' really hit a nerve, and I loved that movie.

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.

The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. I was obsessed with that stuff.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode.

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.

I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.

Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.

'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes.

I think 'Sex and the City' is a chapter that will never close. In a wonderful way, it's always going to be an open chapter because it seems like new generations discover the show and relate to it, which is amazing, and you can't hope for that.

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.

I don't take myself very seriously. I like to make people laugh. You know, it's like, if a woman can't be happy for another woman's work, they have to go work on that.