Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

You never can take for granted that you have a job.

You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?

Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

The only private sector industry where employees work with their lives on stake for the interest of common people is media industry.

The vanities of life:pleasure, possession, position and power.

I write because sometimes I feel I cannot breathe...until I do.

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?'

I'm a female in comedy, so of course I want there to be more women on 'SNL', and women of color.

My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.