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.

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

I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.

There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate

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

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

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