I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows.

Have you been playing in toxic waste lately?

I think sometimes we give people a lot of credit just because they're writing nice sentences even if it isn't adding up to much.

Nudge: "I look like prep school Barbie. (looks at Max) Actually, you look like prep school Barbie. I'm just Barbie's friend.

Is it important to be right or is it important to do what's right? That's one of the hardest lessons to learn.

I won’t lie to you—it was hilarious. Yes, we were in trouble, yes, this was a disaster, and so one and so forth, but I have to say, seeing those upturned faces, the looks, was bout the best thing that happened to us since we’d come to New York.