You can be as beautiful and charming as you'd like, but if you're not terrific at acting, it will mean nothing on the screen.

When you're surrounded by friends and exes, there's a whole lot of stuff that starts crawling out. But however serious and traumatic those experiences may be to the participant, to the onlooker they're hilarious.

Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.

I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.

You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.

You don't want to take over the universe. You wouldn't know what to do with it beyond shout at it.

You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful — and then you actually talk with them, and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick. But then there's other people, and you meet them and you think: "Not bad, they're okay," and then you get to know them, and their face sort of becomes them, like their personality's written all over it; and they just — and they turn into something so beautiful.