When I turned 50, I looked in the mirror and I thought: "Hey, this isn't the dress rehearsal, this is life and I don't know how much longer I'm going to have!"

If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty. “Who cares?”

I became immersed in the cult of improvisation. I was like one of those athletes trying to get into the Olympics. It was all about blind focus. I was so sure that I was doing exactly what I'd been put on this earth to do, and I would have done anything to make it onto that stage.

For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

Every kid has something they're good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.

In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.

"30 Rock" is over, so I definitely aspire to write another movie again; eventually, will try to pitch something for television again.