Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.

I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes

There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate

When you wear a fresh pair of shoes, you feel like you can never die. You feel like you're gonna live forever.

Someone said to me today, ‘Everybody loved PUSING DAISIES,’ I said, ‘No, they didn’t— that’s why I’m here today talking about a new show.’

In movies, I have had the opportunity of working with some of the people that I respect very much.

I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it.

Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed.

They say, timing is everything. But then they say, there is never a perfect time for anything.

The accents are really really funny. I think I could convince somebody I was from New Zealand.

I'm a big believer of daylight in the studio.

The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.

Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.

Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I’m not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I’d want you to hear.

Often the biggest test is when the chips are down and you've got to stick together as a team.

To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away