"A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich."

“That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.”

“I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.”

“A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But lets remember that, despite being a poor country, Indias democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.”

“Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“When heaven joins the battle against you, who could stand?”

“I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.”

“I'm not going to make it a target, but it's something to aim for.”

“I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.”

Source : "Ana Gasteyer Talks Living in Suburgatory". Redbook interview, www.redbookmag.com. March 15, 2012.