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Wieners, punch, and spinning into barfing would later be referred to as the "Paris Hilton".

(When I started at SNL, you could still smoke in an office building. I might not be young.) I

SLEEP (Sleep Like Everyone Else, Please). At

Everyone is quiet. Which is the wooooooorst. It's scary when a group of people all know instinctively not to joke around.

Lots of teenage girls have taken comfort under the wings of half-closeted gay boys.

What Turning Forty Means to Me
I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn't used to have to do that. But now I do.

If you ever start to feel good about yourself ...
... they have this thing called the internet.

I went back outside and manually released my butt cheeks.

If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?

I was like, oh, I want to sign up for "Catwoman," and then Anne Hathaway had already signed up for it.

That is one boss, bold, bladed motherfucker.

In improv there are no mistakes, only beautiful happy accidents. And many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident.

I want to spend time with Oprah, and I don't know what I need to do to make that happen.

Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don't just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

Bitch get stuff done

You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

I don't have a driver's license. It's just one of the many ways in which I am developmentally stunted.

A combustion engine of ambition and disappointment.

Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox.

I have a uniquely German capacity to vacillate between sentimentality and coldness.

You can't control things by being nervous ...

Either way, everything will be fine, she smiled, and for a little while I was pulled out of my anxious, stunted brain cloud.

[ ... ] things most people do naturally are often inexplicably difficult for me.

I had to get back to work. NBC has me under contract. The baby and I only have a verbal agreement.

Q: Is 30 Rock the most racist show on television? A: No, in my opinion it's NFL football. Why do they portray all those guys as murderers and rapists?

You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.

NBC. How could I not? I grew up watching Seinfeld, Johnny Carson, Late Night with David Letterman, and reruns of The Mothers-in-Law.

Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

Never tell a crazy person he's crazy.

(One of the best-kept secrets of "country life" is that people accidentally crush their own pets a lot.) The

I think the world has too many actresses.

Gravity": "It's the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die then spend one more minute with a woman his own age.

But I am a big believer in "Intelligent Design," and by that I mean I love IKEA!

The thing that always fascinated me about improv is that it's basically a happy accident that you think you're initiating.

At ten I asked my mother if I could start shaving my legs. My dark shin fur was hard to ignore in shorts weather,

I am extremely square and obedient in nature!

We spent days and weeks doing nothing, calling one another ten times a day to schedule our nothing-doing.

Why are my arms so weak? It's like I did that push-up last year for nothing!

I had my hair in a ponytail and looked my trademark exhausted.

Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian.

Lorne knows that the most exhausting people occasionally turn out the best stuff.

At the upcoming Grammy Awards, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony will perform together as the first time, as man and wife. Hopefully music.

A recent study announced that 52 per cent of all teens who sign virginity pledges recant them within twelve months. If I'm on my game.

If you're a die-hard "foodie," hop off the road in DuBois and enjoy a Subway sandwich made at a place that is eighty percent gas station.

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

I was turning out to be college educated and unemployable in even the most basic way.

Sometimes people expect that I'm going to be tough. It's not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Two peanuts were walking down the street, and one was a salted.

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

To this day the smell of fresh popcorn causes me to experience stress, hunger, and sketch ideas for John Goodman.

There should be a new, more honest euphemism. Like, I'm leaving office because I plan to solicit more anonymous sex in bathrooms.

You know who DOES have a funny bone in her body? Your Mom every night for a dollar!

(Don Fey had a large rubber stamp that said "bullshit," which was and is awesome.)

I don't want to be somebody else.

My work is my work. I take my work seriously but I don't take myself too seriously.

No other formula gives your baby a better start in life except that stuff that comes out of you for free.

I'm married, you know. I love my husband and I have a child.

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.

I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

When you go into something where you can really trust that everyone has thought about it, more than you have even, then that's like a gift.

This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens

To say I'm an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.

I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.

Amy Poehler and I have been friends for so long, we're like Oprah and Gale. Only we're not denying anything.

We are attempting to pro-activate the community by utilizing a series of directives intended to maximate communicative agreeance.

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.

To this day, all I know is there are between two and four openings down there and that the set up inside looks vaguely like the Texas Longhorns logo.

What's that you say? None of them want that? You are correct. So I spent four years attempting to charm the uninterested.

I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, You just haven't met the right girl yet.

THERE ARE NO MISTAKES, only opportunities.

I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age.

If these two are tired of having sex with each other, what hope is there for the rest of us?

If you're going to expend energy being mad about Photoshop, you'll also have to be mad about earrings. No one's ears are that sparkly!

I don't like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don't think that fighting and passion are the same thing.

There are never fewer than eight Tracey Ullman characters in any NYC nail salon at any given time.

Twitter seems like a busman's holiday: just more writing. I have no plans to do it. I'll just stick with my 24/7 webcam. I'm old-fashioned that way.

And I can see Russia from my house.

Quentin Tarantino is here, star of all my sexual nightmares.

Gay people don't actually try to convert people. That's Jehovah's Witnesses you're thinking of.

This chance like meth heads over a cough syrup counter.

In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I'm sorry, did I say 'scientists'? I meant Irish people.

I don't live the single life and never really did.

Not only is my wardrobe totally average, my body's totally average. I love all the candy-fantasy fulfillment of Sex and the City.

Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.

I want to go to there.

And I think gay people are just as good at watching their kids play hockey as straight people.

Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?

Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.

A book hasn't caused me this much trouble since Where's Waldo went to that barber pole factory

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

I was a very confident little kid.

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

I have a great gynecologist who is as gifted at listening as she is at rectal exams.

If everyone had a dad like mine, no one would have sex tapes.

No, that part's not true! That's a joke-lie. I'm not going to lie to you in this story because I want you to know that the rest of it is true.

An acting teacher once told me, 'Greet everything with yes ... Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.'

I'm not a fan of purposely farting in front of other people. If you have to fart, leave the room.

Pilot scripts are particularly difficult to write because you have to introduce all the characters without it feeling like a series of introductions.

So, to sum up my room-clearing generalizations, men are in comedy to break rules.