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There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.

When a man has written a role for you that you admire, the expectations are higher.

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end up raising your audience's expectations.

To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally.

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for disappointment with every success that you deliver because with every success you raise your readers' expectations.

Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.