People are human. There's such a premium today on being perfect. That's just not the way people are.

My first lessons in comedy, how to construct a joke, I learned from Eileen Brennan, who had unbelievable timing.

[Allison Janney] could memorize anything.She would memorize in the makeup trailer!

Your interests change. I used to feel that if I spent evenings reading, or watching a film, or just doing nothing up here at the house, I would probably be missing something that was a lot more fun. I don't have that sense anymore.

I also listened to hours and hours and hours and hours and hours of [J.F.] Kennedy, and I sort of built [ accent]. And then I got on set [of 'J.F.Kennedy' movie ] and forgot it.But that's what you want to do. You want it to just be real. And I think authenticity was better than - people always talk about when an accent doesn't work, and the phrase you always hear is, "It was inconsistent."

The best part is not the biggest, it's the one that's most memorable.

When I had my Comedy Central roast, David [Spade] was my first choice to be roastmaster, because I adore him. He's funny as hell, and nobody is meaner.