When I got to Saturday Night Live, it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.

No one knows anything. You're going to make mistakes and you're going to do things that people think are stupid. You can't sit there and go, "I never want to make a mistake."

It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged.

If a guy doesn't like a funny girl, something is wrong with him.

A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

Growing up in Oklahoma, there wasn't much to do. Play sports, do a lot of drugs, or read and watch movies, which is what I did.

Yeah, improvising only really works 100% when you're with somebody.

All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.

I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.

Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.

I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.

My happiness comes from the kindness of those around me.

Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone.-Hobbes

Vow not to be like those who tend to allow their difficulties to distract them from the enormous rewards ahead.

When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.

Lord, what are you trying to teach me?

The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings.

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.