“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.”

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”.

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.

You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that’s not me.

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.

It’s what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I’m a family man.

Then the negative energy doesn’t even get into the room. You just have to prepare, and then go in and be the best you that you can be, and you’ll either get the job or you won’t.

A lot of the questions that anyone would naturally have about their family, you’ll get much of the answers for, or at least hints to where it will go, in the future.

What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I’m working on it.

I’m like a fungus; you can’t get rid of me.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it’s really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?

I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.

We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly

I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.

There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you’d had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting.

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show.

I translated the novel and still it remains a mystery as to how exactly how this works. Noll thinks more like an experimental filmmaker than a novelist.