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

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.

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.

I think that's important to have in something like a national television show. It's important to portray a woman realistically, and not just as a bridezilla.

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Imagination is the connecting of disparate things in novel ways.

We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.

I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you.

Instinct told me it was dangerous. I could handle dangerous. Dangerous and me went back a long way. We did lunch when dangerous was in town.

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.

As long as the White House is deadly serious, which they tell me they are, I'll help them anyway I can.

I’d like every man who doesn’t call himself a feminist to explain to the women in his life why he doesn’t believe in equality for women.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair