At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.

I've never been to a class reunion or anything because I'm always afraid of that one - there's going to be some 'Carrie'-like incident.

Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is.

Man up and add a tux to your wardrobe. Just find one you like and get it well-tailored to your own measurements.

The biggest thing I’ve heard for the last four months is, ‘Thanks for ruining my childhood’.

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did.

Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.

I'm more of a science head, so I was like, how would a guy use - if there were ghosts - technology to bring them back?

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.

If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.

I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity. [Lat., Sperat infestis, metuit secundis Alteram sortem, bene preparatum Pectus.]

I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

People must get respect for their new ideas.

My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many ways including my pursuing a career as a brew master.

As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.

Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.