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.

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 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 hope my next movie is with like 80 year olds because I want to feel young again.

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics

I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater.

In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.

UCF stayed with me all the way, so I felt I should stay with them.

Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!

Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in?

I've been offered radio but never done it, partly because the radio ideas that I've been asked to come up with, I've thought about them and then converted them to telly things.

I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

Self-denial is the best riches.