As you get older and you progress in your career, you start to want to have more control over things and you have ideas.

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.

I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.

You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee shop, and have a different kind of life.

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good.

I don't need to be crazy rich and crazy famous. I would just like to keep going.

The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?"

If I had a child and she was a girl, I'd hope she'd do something different from me.

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

But then I realize that even if I did have a soul, it’s not as though someone else would be there. It would only be more of me.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. ... That's a pretty scary thought.

Won't it be nice when all this beastly killing is over, and we can enjoy ourselves and not hurt anyone? I hate this game.

My dad always told me that I could be anything I wanted, if I was willing to work hard enough to achieve it.

I will never brag about myself, but my family, I can go on forever.

I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

An artist in 2014 who is thinking about album sales is either sadly deluded or has to make so many commercial compromises that it sort of takes the joy out of making music.

Autumn is no time to lie alone

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.