Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you.

If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.

I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

Class clowns become actors.