Brad Hall

“Marjorie Luke was funny and huge, or at least I remember her that way.”

“It's a really special skill to be able to pick up a phone the way that a human picks up a phone. It's not as easy as you think.”

“Julia is one of the most loyal people who ever lived. Her best friend is her best friend from third grade, and her other best friends are her best friends from Northwestern. Once you're a pal, you're a pal for life with Jules. I'm not just flattering her because she's my wife.”

“You start out as an artist in some way or other. And my background is all theater, and I goofed into doing TV comedy.”

“No one remembers this because it's the whipping boy, but 'The Single Guy' was very well-reviewed and watched, and then the central concept became attacked by the very people who were putting it on. And then the next thing you know you're running in fear, and everyone stops being funny.”

“I was very, very happy in Chicago as an actor making $168 a week.”

“I can do a Green Day joke and people actually get it.”

“I like the compressed nature of the story telling.”

“TV shows about TV were taboo for a while.”

“New York is just such a perfect place for romance.”

“It's nice to be able to sit down and have a discussion about something for more than four minutes, and not look at your watch and go, 'Oh my God, I just spent $40,000 of HBO's money.'”

“I mean, if you look at all the great romantic screwbally kind of movies from the '30s and '40s, they're all in New York. Even 'Sleepless in Seattle,' a movie about Seattle, ends up in New York, of course. The whole country, even if they've never been to New York, knows about it... from the movies.”

“I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I have an unbelievably beautiful, well-known wife. And the people who criticize me don't.”

“In New York you go to the coffee shop, have a bagel, walk down the street, get hassled, run into someone else. People just waltz into your world and it's believable.”

“The truth of the matter is that it's not much less work to do a short than it is to do a feature. Particularly when you're running around different countries.”

“Audiences want to see people break rules for love, to challenge the fates for love.”

“Hugh Grant is really the perfect actor for romantic comedies. Anything he does is invariably charming.”

“'Saturday Night Live' is a whole different arena. It's great fun and I love it and that's what we do in the Practical theater. I believe in it wholeheartedly and will do it the rest of my life. But there's also legitimate theater, be it comedy, drama, classics or modern plays which I think is important and something I want to be involved in too.”

“You have to run, an awful lot, on instinct. Even on 'Veep,' it's not like you get weeks of rehearsal to break out what's going on in the scenes.”

“When I go to see theater, I'm consumed with professional jealousy.”