I hate this phrase, but it's a "can do" attitude [that's important] that, whatever you do in life, you should have.

The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.

If the doors aren't open, just kick them in and keep walking.

Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.

You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

I stopped using Twitter for a while just because I got sick of it and I started using it again, but I don't check the "mentions."

You really don't settle on an idea until you're really sure it's the best idea. Then once you settle on it you commit to it entirely. That was always the plan.

I got a lot of texts from friends and emails from friends and most of them were just pure jealousy.

You should be nice to people because it's better to be nice to people than mean to people, not because you think there's something in it for you.

I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.

I would far rather add a character who generates strong feelings than someone who just kind of floats along, generating medium-warmth smiles of gentle affirmation.

We are all poor in the face of God's majesty. Not all of us realise it.

Everything changes but change itself.

We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.

Fashion is not beautiful, neither is it ugly. Why should it be either? Fashion is fashion.

When you feel good about the work you're doing, that's what's important, not the budget or anything like that. If you're happy about the actors you're working with, that's what's important.

I enjoy Modern Family very much. Good TV program. I don't know why. I just find that so many of the jokes land. So many of the actors are so great. Phil Dunphy is one of my favorite characters ever.

The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others.

Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.

If you asked me, 'What do you want to say?' it would be, 'Love yourself more.'

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.