Every day I wrote in my journal: "How am I going to win today?" So that when the guys are talking about water-boarding I'm telling them they haven't even got the right towels.

If you care about [the characters] as if they were real, that always helps.

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.

I want to go to there.

"I can't believe you recently had a baby. How do you do it?" The baby starts to come down...and once that happens you can't-it comes out. Whether you let it or not, the baby comes out. So that's how I did it.

I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.

When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was no e-mail, if you can wrap your brain around that.