Life is improvisation. All of those [improv] classes were like church to me. The training had seeped into me and changed who I am.

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.

Mind is greedy. When you sense the benefits with people who previously thought rubbish about you, the mind forgoes those thoughts and inclines toward those people only to gain optimal benefits.

Another day another life Passes by just like mine It's not complicated Another mind Another soul Another body to grow old It's not complicated

It's never to late to do nothing at all.

For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.