The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage that Gilda Radner had walked on. It was sacred ground.

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.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

The true meaning and purpose of life is to give some meaning and purpose to your life.

A true diva is graceful, and talented, and strong, and fearless and brave and someone with humility.

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

I love watching him think," Maeve told Lily. "You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.

Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.

When I was born ... the doctor came out to the waiting room and said to my father ... I'm very sorry. We did everything we could ... but he pulled through.