Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.

Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.

At some point, you realize that people might be laughing at your jokes because they're afraid not to laugh.

I wrote a one-act play - I can't remember the name of it, but it was really about the way women are perceived as leaders. In the play, Catherine the Great would say things like, "You know, John F. Kennedy had extramarital affairs and no one says anything. But I bang one horse and now I'm a horse banger for all eternity? That's it? That's what I am?"

Anne Hathaway you gave a stunning performance in "Les Miserables." I have not seen someone so totally alone and abandoned like that since you were onstage with James Franco at the Oscars.

When I started on 'Saturday Night Live,' I had the choice of wearing contact lenses, which I had never worn before, or glasses, in order to be able to read the cue cards.