Improvisation is about finding the best joke or the silliest way to get something across. Improvising conflict is always fun because you can just go for it.

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring. Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun. Now the jingle hop has begun.

I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road.

If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

Don't be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.

This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.

White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

If you can not get the results you need yourself, then it is time to get help from somewhere else.

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.

There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them.

I was very happy to be living in New York at that time, more than in the present time. Now it's all commerce.

Improv is what helped me overcome the anxiety that I was feeling sometimes. It's the thing that pushes me to be present, and to keep moving through all of the what-ifs that go through my mind.

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won't punish innocent people unnecessarily.

Be fast on the field physically, but play slow mentally. Basically, play hard but play smart.

Make it work

It amuses me when I'm described as 'chic.'