I always drastically changed my look for each role. It's gotten a little tedious in real life, also, because there's no hiding.

I'm enjoying the opportunity that Parks And Recreation affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation.

If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.

If your shirt isn't tucked into your pants, then your pants are tucked into your shirt.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.

Follow your gut, make a choice, and throw yourself into it. If you make a mistake, then you have merely afforded yourself a valuable lesson.

If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.

If you want to be happy in life, consider yourself a student. Every day of your life, think: how can I improve?

Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

The key to unlock your entrepreneurial spirit is your imagination.

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

It's very tough when two creative people are together.

Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme weather.

Love is a flame to burn out human wills, Love is a flame to set the will on fire, Love is a flame to cheat men into mire.

No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart.

It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.

Sometimes performing someone else's song is more difficult than writing your own.

Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.