We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop, alone.

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.

When you're vested in fear, frightened of failure, yet in the surrender is where you find your success.

...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.

To praise is an investment in happiness.

I think now we just know way too much about our celebrities. It's not that interesting when you know that much about people.

I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.

Man is lonely mainly because he has been disconnected from the Divine presence.

What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the character. Try using the character's senses, even if the character is you.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

I have a dresser, who literally is a guy who makes sure the tie is right. It's a little bit of a process. I could probably do it by myself, but it would take me three times as long.

Memories were the markers of the journey through life. It was necessary to know where you had come from. Only then could you know where you were going.