You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them.

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.

No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then - I guess it's still the same way - you had to take an acting class.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters.

I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.