Teeny Quotes

I`m really short and because regular pants don`t fit me right I always get to wear my own clothes on my shows like Undeclared and Dawsons Creek. Josh is so funny. He was such a practical joker on the set. He used to moon us a lot. I mean he still does... I`m just not there to see it. I don`t like these teeny-bopper movies that have no substance. I`d just as soon not work at all."

On how to take the violence in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) (re: The final duel with Lucy Liu): "It`s supposed to be kind of amusing and poetic at the same time. And also just a teeny-tiny bit solemn. When you see her head, it`s funny. And then her line, `that really was a Hattori Hanzo sword,` that`s funny. But then, the next shot is not funny, when she tips over and Meiko Kaji is singing about revenge on the soundtrack. So, it`s all together. Funny. Solemn. Beautiful. Gross. All at the same time."

(1966) It`s the thing to do, to tell all the teeny-boppers, "I dig The Beatles" and you sing a song like "Yesterday" or "Michelle". Hey, God knows, it`s such a cop-out, man, both of those songs. If you go into the Library of Congress, you`ll find stuff a lot better than that. There are millions of songs like "Michelle" or "Yesterday" written in Tin Pan Alley.

For so long afterward (9/11), whenever I heard anyone talk about Muslims, it was in association with terrorism. But I thought, what could I do in a teeny way - and believe me, it`s a teeny way - to defuse this? There had to be some way to separate the 1.5 billion people who don`t want to kill us from the 100,000 or so who do. I thought if I could get five Muslims and six Hindus and maybe 3 Jews to laugh for 90 minutes, then I`ve accomplished something. (on Looking For Comedy In The Muslim World)