I like to take chances, and that's the key to comedy -- dancing like an idiot but doing it with wild abandon.

I'll quit coffee. It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used to it. It'll still be the best part of waking up.

I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone.

That's what I like to do: bring out the best in people.

That's the key to comedy: allowing yourself to look stupid

I've been going to the same grocery store for 13 years, and all of a sudden one day everybody was like, 'Oh, my God.

Nobody's ever kept their sitcom character going after the show's off the air.

Many of the people I've worked with over the years came from a sketch-comedy background or an improv background, and I've learned a lot from them.

Sometimes the journey to love involves some bumpy detours, as any girl with an - ex-fiance will tell you. But I've learned a smooth trip isn't particularly important. Getting there is what matters.

View other authors as your allies rather than your competition

Water is happy when it falls

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

My chair just broke by the way. It's a billion dollar corporation and I can't get a decent chair and somebody to come out here and fix this announce table.

Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.

And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.