Making a show is also economics. Because the irony is, or the shame of it is, you cannot create a show instantaneously. It needs to be massaged. You need to see who is relating to who. How is it working with the audience? You need to give it a chance for the audience to find it, because there are so many outlets. And the audience doesn't know where to go.

Somebody said, 'Hey, there is a lull in your career. Why don't you write books about your [dyslexia]?' We are currently writing our 34th novel.

Somebody asked me if I could go back and start again with a different brain, would I. Years ago I thought yes, I would, and now I know I wouldn't. Because whatever challenges I had in school, I guess they forced me to where I am today. So I now see them as an asset.

There is a whole other generation that knows me from "Arrested Development" "Scream" and, of course, "Happy Days."

The Queen of England gave me the honor of the Order of the British Empire for working with children.

I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain

The strangest thing [to sign] has to be parts of [fan's] anatomy. But mostly female.