I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.

When I was younger, I was always obsessed with nails.

I'm a real extrovert, but when I'm round someone new, I'm super shy.

I've always been a fighter and I've always fought through things my whole life.

I'm totally human.

Tennis is my job, but it's not my life.

I've always considered myself the best and the top. I never considered that I was out of it.

Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.

Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

You can be whatever size you are, and you can be beautiful both inside and out. We're always told what's beautiful and what's not, and that's not right.

I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.

I don't know if I've had my share of drama, but I've definitely had my share of hard times.

All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm thinking about it all day.

Tennis just a game, family is forever.

Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.

I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

No one likes getting their nails done more than I do.

Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.

I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.

I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'

The only problem is time.

You gotta keep the funny intact.

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.

If something sticks around long enough that it makes it to seasonal D.V.D. release, I'll watch it. That's how I watched 'The Sopranos'.

When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.

Everybody in my family had a real sick, twisted sense of humor. Most of the jokes we make in our house, we would just never even dream of making anywhere else. Just sick, horrible stuff. That wasn't anything new to college.

When astrology was conceived, all of the celestial bodies were in different places. So if you're a Sagittarius now, I guess you would have been a Capricorn 2,000 years ago.

Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition.

I don't smoke much pot anymore.

Every woman's innate ability to let anything go.

The relationship between Aquaman and Aqualad should be investigated.

Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy.

Religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.

I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'

My dad always played Anne Murray in the car on the way to the dump when I was a kid.

Sarah Palin is very pro-life of course, unless the life is that of an Iraqi civilian or a wolf running frantically from a roaring helicopter while being strafed with ribbons of automatic weapons fire.

I distrust all television doctors.

I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts New England region is arguably the hardest dialect to nail.

The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget.

Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park', but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.

We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy'. If something was horribly offensive and shocking, we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.

I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.

You don't want to be nasty for the sake of being nasty.

I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.

There was no joke I could make that was too offensive. I can actually remember at least one time where my mother told me something that, I was like, 'whoa!'