The great appear great to us..

I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like so….

I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something..

Drama and comedy, to me ,are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once..

It is by doing anything that we become anyone.

I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it..

Love emerges at the point of a lacking word, and one offers one's being to fill the lack..

Those who are not good to others are bad to themselves..

Every intentional act is a magical act..

For to a folysshe demaunde behoueth a folysshe ansuere..

I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters..

A text is evolutionary by its very nature..

The climate is changing, and human activity contributes to that in some manner..

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible..

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out..

One of the wonderful things about Portlandia - and I'm not just blowing smoke, although I can blow smoke, but I'm not - is that there is an expansive….

There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at..

I was trained as a straight dramatist..

I love all of our subpodcasts..

I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit..

Fashion is so over the top..