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

In movies, I have had the opportunity of working with some of the people that I respect very much.

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

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment

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.'

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

Someone said to me today, ‘Everybody loved PUSING DAISIES,’ I said, ‘No, they didn’t— that’s why I’m here today talking about a new show.’