At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

Doing the right thing has power.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

That's my favorite food group: donut. I love the donut.

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.

My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

The last time I was this confused I was watching a Fassbinder film.

There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate

You're given the fruit of one palm tree:Bear it a basin of clear water.Don't trouble with the plight of other palms.

Change holds danger, but also the potential for something new ~ and better ~ to be born.

One of the things we can be sure of over the July 4th weekend is that news reports will keep telling us how many of us are going to die in automobile accidents.

it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.

The older I become the more I realize of that I have to work very hard to reproduce what I search: the instantaneous. The influence of the atmosphere on the things and the light scattered throughout.

A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.

Every time I go to the dentist they say, 'You really need to fix that gap of yours'. I'm like, 'My gap is paying your dentist bills.'

Die Kunst ist ewig, ihre Formen wandeln sich. (The art is eternal, their shapes are changing.)