When you wear a fresh pair of shoes, you feel like you can never die. You feel like you're gonna live forever.

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television

If you look hard enough, you can find race issues and racism in everything. I know people who say, 'See, I don't play pool 'cuz that's where the white ball chase the black ball off the table. So I prefer bowling, where the big black ball knock down the white pins with the red necks.'

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it.

I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.

Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes