I think television is really incredible because of the fact that you get to sit with a character for so, and the character does something different, every week. I think that's really interesting.

I used to have a lot of recurring dreams about Captain Hook when I was a little kid, which I remember very vividly. But I think I just really liked Peter Pan a lot, and 'Hook' was my favorite movie.

I think one of the funniest things about '30 Rock' is that Liz Lemon is sort of like Buster Keaton - she's always the fool, the joke is always on her.

You have to hold on to what you find because life has a way of throwing you curve balls that you never expect.

I would say if I was any type of nerd, it was probably a band nerd.

On my first date, my boyfriend asked me if I wanted to eat a la carte, and I said that I would prefer to stay inside!

I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

I keep expectations so embarrassingly low that I broke my contract and went and got a hair-cut.

I love movies, but I think people think relationships are supposed to go how they go in movies. The ones I like are the ones that represent life.

I don't think there are hour comedies, but if there were, I would have been open to it.

There's no way that you're going to please all of America, or all of the fans.

Grey rocks, and greyer sea, And surf along the shore -- And in my heart a name My lips shall speak no more.

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.

I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.

Good PR educates people; that's all it is. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.