Matt Quotes

The only way I get back to my center is either by talking to my wife or by spending time by myself.

The thing that makes me feel most alive would be when I'm hanging out with my family and feeling my connection with them and feeling safe and content in that.

I think I'll got to Thailand for a year and become a Thai boxer. I'm gonna train for a year.

When you get frustrated you try to do too much, you try to make stuff up that's not there, and you play outside yourself.

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

For some reason, a lot of Hollywood big shots are curious to see how they'd be drawn with bulging eyes and no chin.

I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?

'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.

Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.

Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.

I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do in television is stick to your guns. If you're making a show, you make the show.

I think people who work in comedy and humor are hesitant to analyze it too much, because you feel like if you take it apart, you'll break it and not be able to put it back together again.

I'm a level 5 vegan, I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.

I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!

I believe that children are our future. Unless we stop them now.

There is no refuge from yourself.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.

Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December.

One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.

A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.

It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.

I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want.

I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.

I've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.

I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.

Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.

We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.

We are to live in eager expectation of our heavenly inheritance.

The great, rewarding thing about directing is that you're overseeing the whole thing. When you're an actor, you're just one department.

One thing it makes me realize is just how similar we all are, around the globe. The details may be different, but every human heart is touched by themes like hope, comfort and mercy.

It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.

Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time.

The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me up to accomplish absolutely anything.

A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.

I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

I've been really lucky. I'll completely forget that I'm a celebrity. And then something will happen, and I'll go, 'Oh, right.'

I think Clint Eastwood is a well oiled machine. Everyone that works with him has the same reaction, "Can I stay with you?"

I have pit bulls barking at me on half of the love songs.

Kids aren't born to be bullies, they're taught to be bullies.

The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.

For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.

When I was 7 years old, my father asked me a simple question. He said, 'do you want to see someone fly?' What 7 year old boy is gonna say no to that?

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.

When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.

Have compassion towards each other, including animals. Love and respect every living being on this planet - a key factor to a greater society.

I can never turn a tour into a vacation.