If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money...

Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.

I wanted just for people to know that, no matter how simple your life is, if you have millions or you don't have anything, you can be happy where you are.

I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent real people on this Earth.

I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!

I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.

It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week.