Life is improvisation. All of those [improv] classes were like church to me. The training had seeped into me and changed who I am.

Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.

I don't want to be somebody else.

Doing one movie every two years is about all I can handle 'cause, being the creator at '30 Rock', my year there starts in the middle of June and goes back around until March.

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?"

I believe in process. I believe that having a really difficult process is more valuable than a good outcome.

The more New Yorkers like something, the more disgusted they are. "The kitchen was all Sub-Zero: I want to kill myself. The building has a playroom that makes you want to break your own jaw with a golf club. I can't take it.