Most important, for openers, work six hours a day, seven days a week for six years. Then if you like it you can get serious about it.

I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.

If you know what you're doing, you're doing dull stuff.

You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.

Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.

Paint faster than you can think.

What's in front of me is what's most interesting.

If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground.

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

I know people can be a little nervous about swimsuits, but have some fun with it. Believe you can hold it down. If you believe you can hold it down, you can wear it.

Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps. One thing leads to another.

You should actually be fighting to have a time of solitude because through it, you can make yourself great.

Loving someone unconditionally is the ultimate joy

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.

Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.

I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.

Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject.

Anyone watching '30 Rock' always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She's the boss; Liz Lemon just works here.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

If it could have happened through a film that I was associated with, it would have made be doubly proud. It makes me proud anyway. I am not disappointed.

I love to make movies about young people - young scientists that are inventing things and all the writing they did was very funny and very true.