It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what your trying to do. If you look as good as you can, people will be able to pay attention to what your actually saying.

Thomas Jefferson—another gorgeous white boy who would not have been interested in me. This was my problem in a nutshell. To get some play in Charlottesville, you had to be either a Martha Jefferson or a Sally Hemings.

Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself.

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 didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

Start with a 'Yes', and see where that takes you.

A combustion engine of ambition and disappointment.