When you are in the 8 o'clock position, you can either be a cultural phenomenon, or you're endangered. It's a tough time slot.

Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.

I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.

Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

You may not be able to buy love with money, but if you spend your love, you may end up with a lot of money.

After all, these were blood drinkers, beings who spoke gently, liked poetry, and yet killed mortals all the time.

Life is too short not to smile. Smile as much as you can.

I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.

I work constantly to be better at being rejected.

Maybe you know why a child can reject a hot dog with mustard served on a soft bun at home, yet eat six of them two hours later at fifty cents each.

If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.

I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.

Winner knows nothing about food.

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.