In some ways, what I need is a wife.

If you want to do something, try it! The worst anyone you ask for help can do is say no.

I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.

I was attracted to people who were funny because I wanted to be in that world.

There was this real fear in doing Square Pegs after getting such a fast ride to glory on Saturday Night Live. I was afraid that the word would be peaks early, fails to live up to promise.

If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.

The wonderful thing about Gilda Radner was that she was not a person who disappointed.

I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

I think every writer has a little freak in ‘em.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent.

Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.

What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn’t know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.