In the past few months, I've become convinced of one thing: If I were a man, I'd be paid more.

Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.

I want to be on that thing that people watch while they're eating a quick dinner before they go out, or to cheer them up. I want to make people laugh every day, if I can.

When you're recording a TV show, you really feel like you're in a bubble.

I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby, those old movies.

I didn't really think of role in those terms, like 'quirky best friend', when I read the script and when I came to the project.

I enjoy meeting someone and then really getting to know them and then falling in love.

I've done a lot of pilots, and they're all so expositional. In the beginning, I think that it is important to make sure that the audience is invested in us.

Wherever I am on location, I can usually, even in the weirdest little places, find a recording studio.

At least 35 years ago, you didn't have the internet telling you every single thing that happened in every school and college around the world.

I hope my next movie is with like 80 year olds because I want to feel young again.

If you fall into troubles, it is not that you did something wrong. It is because the universe wants to prepare you for a better life by making you strong.

What compels me to write now is the same as all those years ago. It is the love of writing and storytelling, driven by a desire to escape.

I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.

I am a hopeless romantic.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

We, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception as we pick sides.

Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There's got to be hard work and mental toughness. It's not just one thing that gets you there it's an accumulation of things

Music, to me, if it's good, it's good. That's all that matters.

Language transcends us and yet we speak.

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.