It doesn't matter if it's a school play or a dumb TV show. It's your work. You should care about it so much that people get annoyed with you.

Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

And I can see Russia from my house.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.

I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'

Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

I had my hair in a ponytail and looked my trademark exhausted.

Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

If asked which words one associated with the Sahara, only the most dedicated surrealist might be expected to offer "whale".

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

It isn't enough just to do right things and say right things, you must also think right things before your life can come into harmony.

When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.

I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.

I'm kinda like a needle in a haystack right now cause I haven't blown up yet.

Creating a world in a sci-fi show is almost the whole battle. If you have a great story and you can create a great world, as far as the acting goes, it makes my job a whole lot easier.

If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!