It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television
When you wear a fresh pair of shoes, you feel like you can never die. You feel like you're gonna live forever.
If you look hard enough, you can find race issues and racism in everything. I know people who say, 'See, I don't play pool 'cuz that's where the white ball chase the black ball off the table. So I prefer bowling, where the big black ball knock down the white pins with the red necks.'
I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it.
Someone said to me today, ‘Everybody loved PUSING DAISIES,’ I said, ‘No, they didn’t— that’s why I’m here today talking about a new show.’
Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.
In movies, I have had the opportunity of working with some of the people that I respect very much.
You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes
There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate
I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.
I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.
Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment
