It's gratifying that people are watching that [Veep] intently and that hard. So it's been really nice and it's been really fun.

What I loved about it was language-wise it wasn't that finely-tuned-perfect-insult-for-the-perfect-situation that sometimes we try and do on Veep.

I was a Fry & Laurie fan, I was a Blackadder fan, I was a House fan and he [ Hugh Laurie]s a pleasure.

I'd like to give every member of our cast a best supporting comedy Emmy.

I love Veep so I felt like there was a lot I could bring to it.

All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American high school to have remembered that.

As for being on Twitter, I enjoy it tremendously, and it is wonderfully overwhelming to see people not just digging it and liking it.

If that had been my last show last night, you'd be talking to the new guy, asking the same questions that I got.

I'm certainly never going to say that someone is prettier than Julia Louis-Dreyfus, but someone who would make her crazy for being young and good-looking.

My first instinct was Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) cannot be president of the United States. She needs to lose because it's the thing she wants most on the planet Earth.

I'm a little bit of a news political junkie, a little bit of a reader of history.

If you can't fight and you can't flee, flow.

This world tainted everything it touched, and nothing good was left—could be left – beneath its menacing gaze.

For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all all honourable men.

Hollywood is a mirage factory.

Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue, oh how my heart yearns for you.

I hope people come to the shows because they feel like there's something there that I can't necessarily articulate, but it's real and it's fun.

I will not fall, I will stand tall, feels like no one can beat me.

Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.

Peace and rest at length have come, All the day's long toil is past; And each heart is whispering, "Home, Home at last!"