History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.
I've been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years.
I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.
The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.
Once we get out into a kind of an open world, we really do learn about ourselves and for me it's a lesson in discovering yourself, discovering your inner resources and then literally, in the movie, finding your voice.
I'm one of those people who does a lot of things. I'm lucky. I get up and I have a lot of energy. I have a great work ethic.
My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.
When Scott and I started, every time we performed we wrote a whole new bit. We didn't know this wasn't the way things were done because we were just starting. But we needed the new material anyway. And it's nice, every time that Matt Besser does the show he does a whole new bit. And it's nice to offer up a place where people can be that experimental while offering some solid, proven comedy as well.
If your incentives are set up wrong - if for some reason you reward people for behavior that's actually bad for your customers or your organization - then you're going to encourage that behavior.
I hope that my niece in 20 years is going to say to me, 'Aunt Stevie, what was with your hair?'
Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.