It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.

I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.

Sometimes you're just interviewing someone and you're thinking the entire time, How can I get through this really quickly? Because I know this isn't gonna make it. This person is either too long-winded or deathly boring, or they don't have the point of view that supports what you're trying to do in the piece. Or often people misrepresent themselves on the phone - what they're willing to say to you then, they're not willing to say in person.

You've got to have gumption. You've got to be willing to stand up on the stage for no money for ten years.

The worst thing you can do to a dictator is laugh at him.

More people need to inhabit this world.

It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.