As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.

Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.

I never want to see umbrellas around me." he [Mussolini] once said. "The umbrella is a bourgeois relic, it is the arm used by the pope's soldiers. A people who carry umbrellas cannot found an empire.

that profit which good things bestowed on us by teaching to seek pleasure elsewhere than in the barren satisfaction of worldly wealth.

Accept nothing. Challenge everything.

In necessary things unity in doubtful things liberty in all things charity.

Slang is language which takes off its coat spits on its hands - and goes to work.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.

If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.

There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer.