A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.

I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that.

All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.

Don't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.

To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning.

It was like someone far away calling someone else’s name.

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

You used to have to beg and be the busboy to do standup. I got on Community because people saw my videos on YouTube, which were free.

What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls.

Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.

It's quiet now. So quiet that can almost hear other people's dreams.

Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?

I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.

You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?