“I just consider myself a piece of the puzzle and I’m lucky enough to be asked or invited to the party, if you will. I hope I can bring some laughs and grimaces to the fans.”

The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines.

I’m not much of a jokester.

Acting had always been the social scene I’d fallen into. It was sort of a merry band of band geeks and theater nerds.

Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

You never really know the guy until you sit down with him.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I’d start coming into my own.

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

You know what the chain of command is? It’s the chain I go get and beat ya with until you realize who’s in ruttin’ command here!

If I’m gonna get my balls blown off for a word, my word is “poontang”.

You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it’s pretty much the same every week.

Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.

My wife asks me, when I get home from auditions, if they asked how tall I am. And if I say “Yes,” then she says, “Okay, you didn’t get that job.”

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.

What hard evidence is there that Obama doesn’t want ebola in America?

You can’t control the audience. When you’re on the air and they’re not coming to the party, it’s time to shut down the party.

I asked them to sit down since I’d come to walk around. I didn’t want them doing me favours.

She helped me wake up to the fact that I had a source of creativity that was my true creative nature and when I embraced it and asked for this presence in my life.

Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work.

When I was creative director [at Estée Lauder], I was always being asked about my beauty must-haves. From there I had this fun idea to create a line of what was in my makeup bag. But I also love accessories, and people associate me with home, family, and beauty.

As a girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse; if I could still play with it now, I would! I used to love a well-arranged room: the furniture, the fabric, the lighting.

“Support” groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people “share” and “heal,” the question, “What for?”, “What now?” is no longer asked.

In private (Jerry Vines was with us), I asked Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament.

Young people are often asked, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives.