"Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself."
"I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it."
"I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves."
"When I began doing theatre in high school I saw that I could get laughs from people but I didn't really connect that to going on and becoming a comedian. I was interested in acting and while I was at Boston College I was part of an improv group, Mother's Fleabag, which had a long history and has been known as one of the best college improvisation groups in the U.S."
"There's only, like, five perfectly symmetrical people in the world, and they're all movie stars, and they should be, because their faces are very pleasing to look at, but the rest of us are just a jangle of stuff, and the earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be."
"Masters of Sex is the degree I got from Boston College."
"You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control."
"Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something."
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
The old general rule was that educated people did not perform manual labor they managed to eat their bread leaving the toil of producing it to the uneducated this was not an insupportable evil to the working bees so long as the class of drones remained very small but now especially in these free states nearly all are educatedquite too nearly all to leave the labor of the uneducated in any wise adequate to the support of the whole it follows from this that henceforth educated people must labor otherwise education itself would become a positive and intolerable evil no country can sustain in idleness more than a small percentage of its numbers the great majority must labor at something productive.
