The old Lena is dead..

To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering..

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography..

My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy..

What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about..

In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there..

Comedy should never be over-analysed. It's either funny or it isn't. There's a subtle difference between those who say funny things and those who say….

Music gave me something to do in my life..

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?.

Eat right and you can’t go wrong..

I don't like overt traditionalism..

The secret to riches is the same as the secret to comedy - timing..

I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro..

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other..

Let us be French as the Americans are English..

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do..

I don't really like ska..

Education isn't something you can finish.

Just being from New York, that's something that you do - knowing how to dress..

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive..

I'm not just another bimbo..