Sometimes when you're doing a comedy, the director will yell out "alts" and then the director gets the first laugh.

Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

And I can see Russia from my house.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.

I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'

Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

I had my hair in a ponytail and looked my trademark exhausted.

Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more.

I dare you to work harder than your dream demands.

The words on my heart are love, faith and hope.

The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

Either offer me something I really like, or stop trying to tempt me.

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested

Youth should be a savings bank.

It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works.