If the goal is doing good stuff and working with your friends ... if you’re doing that then you’re succeeding.

Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people in television.

I like hard work and I don’t like pretending things are perfect.

When something feels really big, too big to handle, just go very small. Just go real small, just look at the person next to you and look in their eyes and meet the person next to you, find out their name, change one person's life and make one call, write one letter, give one dollar. Whatever small thing feels like what you can do - it changes the course of the ship and that is all it is.

The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business."

Dreams never wear you down.

Believe me, blond hair can take you really far, especially with the older men. It can really distract from the face. I am convinced I could have had sex with both Tony Bennett and John McCain if we weren't each happily married at the time we all met.