"Like, I get Parks and Rec fans and Party Down fans coming up and wanting to talk about the shows, which I’m more than happy to do because they’re always super friendly, cool people. But people who are actually famous, who are walking around with TMZ following them and stuff, that’s a whole different thing, so I would stop short of saying I’m famous and maybe say that I’m well-known among people that like funny, nerdy things."

"When I’m trying to explain the wonder that is Leslie Knope to nonbelievers, I often find myself at a loss for words. But not anymore. Henceforth and forevermore, Leslie Knope is a woman so flawless that she made Batman cry."

"You know, in comedy — at least my method — it’s important to try a ton of different things. If you go back to the first season and look at it, I played it way heavier and way lighter. And there are versions of that where I’m a real as-hole. And that’s the way this character was written — I was supposed to be written off after six episodes. I was a guest star that was supposed to disappear. But, like I said, they thought it was working. They thought some of the takes that I was doing where I didn’t play an as-hole, I played it like a puppy — earnest. And despite the fact that I’m doing these terrible things, I’m still kind of lovable. They liked that. And that was one big change. In the third episode they took a break and rewrote the last three episodes of the first season. And it ends with Andy doing a rock concert, you know? Andy should have disappeared and, instead, they kept him. So I didn’t change so much what I was doing, they just sort of catered their writing to what I was doing that was working. And as more scripts came down the pipe, I was like, “Oh, this character is now more likable than I thought originally.” And I’m telling you, our fourth season is going to be our best season yet. The stuff that’s coming out right now is the funniest stuff we’ve ever done. It’s the truth. I’ve laughed more out loud at our table reads than I ever have before. And the addition of Rob [Lowe] and Adam, it has squared it away. I think it’s the greatest show on TV."