I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.

Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes

There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate

When you wear a fresh pair of shoes, you feel like you can never die. You feel like you're gonna live forever.

Someone said to me today, ‘Everybody loved PUSING DAISIES,’ I said, ‘No, they didn’t— that’s why I’m here today talking about a new show.’

In movies, I have had the opportunity of working with some of the people that I respect very much.

I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it.

He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime. ("A Woman's Vengeance")

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.

I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.

DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms.

There is a power in people who dream big and who try hard.

Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage funny how life works out like that.

Why is Jewish owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?