I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted.

You know, I'm very particular about my sheets. They have to be one hundred percent cotton, with a high thread count. Only cotton. No flannel.

And everybody has the motivation to be that killer.

Tone is everything in TV.

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

I love crispy, cool sheets.

Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all.

Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie.

When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did.

Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.

People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract it?

Faith in God gives self-confidence.

We were the new people here. We weren’t part of their group. We had to prove ourselves.

You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create.

Film and art are close together.

Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.

I have a fierce desire to paint colour.

America now has more and better dancers than they have ever had in the history of the country, but that won't account for the public wants to see.

I'm screwed up, mixed up, messed around, dive-bombing, crashing and burning.

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.