I think its natural if youre doing a lot of comedy to do a lot of drama, because you have to figure out the real version of the joke.

Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.

I want to be on that thing that people watch while they're eating a quick dinner before they go out, or to cheer them up. I want to make people laugh every day, if I can.

In the past few months, I've become convinced of one thing: If I were a man, I'd be paid more.

When you're recording a TV show, you really feel like you're in a bubble.

I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby, those old movies.

I didn't really think of role in those terms, like 'quirky best friend', when I read the script and when I came to the project.

I enjoy meeting someone and then really getting to know them and then falling in love.

I've done a lot of pilots, and they're all so expositional. In the beginning, I think that it is important to make sure that the audience is invested in us.

Wherever I am on location, I can usually, even in the weirdest little places, find a recording studio.

At least 35 years ago, you didn't have the internet telling you every single thing that happened in every school and college around the world.

I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.

For a moment the radio wavered between stationsand I was so busymaking myself marvelous.

If the great Phil Ochs were to rise from the dead today, he would probably be hailed as the new David Rovics.

Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right now, because the planet is in a lot of pain.

A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies.

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.

I could have melted ice, my smile was so bright.

I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful painting of her. It is the painting itself that should be beautiful.

Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.