Julia Louis-Dreyfus

“My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it.”

“When I was growing up, I always thought my hair was messy.”

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

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

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

“Everybody seems to know me. It's very strange.”

“The schedule of doing a live TV show every week is very difficult.”

“I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms.”

“I always wanted to perform.”

“It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all.”

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

“I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe.”

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

“It is, I think, harder for women. I haven't quite figured it out, and all of my women friends haven't figured it out -how the hell do you do this? How do you work and have families?”

“As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.”

“New York is nice, but I don't like it as much as I used to.”

“L.A. I could live without.”