Fan feedback going from a box of letters once every few months to literally tweeting while the show is airing. We are able to get a much quicker response to the choices we're making as storytellers.

I think in television there's more of an awareness about a need for more diversity, but there still needs to be great practical strides taken to improve diversity in front of and behind the camera.

I would be Jesse Martin ..., but not to be his character, just so I could be Jesse Martin and sing like Jesse Martin for a day.

For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.

My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

Look at me and think of Schwarzenegger.

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

I'm not making any plans. I'm just going to let the universe surprise me.

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.

[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.