All my friends are talented enough to get nominated for awards. I just am always surprised when things and people I like are also liked by things like the Oscars.

I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from.

People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it.

It's not dying you need to be afraid of, it's never having lived in the first place.

Please don't wear skinny jeans if you don't have skinny genes.

Claiming that someone's marriage is against your religion is like being angry at someone for eating a donut because you're on a diet.

You want to create an environment where we're fostering ideas, not rejecting them.

I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

I don't think all of my ideas are good. It's almost easier when people are critical of you because it helps with the quality control.

Even vegetables have feelings in our world.

We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

Real sacrifice comes from self sacrifice.

The world has changed around me. I've been me, and continuously being me in a constant, steadfast way.

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.

I don't think Neil Young has a beautiful voice but it's something that grabs you and the songs are so good.

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.

You must base the Wisdom on Love.

If someone met me on a game day, he wouldn't like me. The days in between, I'm the goodest guy you can find.

Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better novelist than William Shakespeare.