After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

Imagination is a timeless possibilities. You attract to you what you have always imagine.

Forgiveness is healing. Especially forgiving yourself

First we love within, then we love the world.

I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.

There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.

However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor.

I want to be as big as I can be. To me, being big is just playing in front of a lot of people. And that's my goal.

He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.

I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.