Basically there are no stars anymore. The audience is the star.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Marketing is the devil.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

...Don't you just hate a phony-looking stiff?" - Aunt Edna

Utilize your special skills to begin your own work.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

I never had the confidence to say I was going to be in front of the camera as a comedian until I saw Eddie Murphy years later.

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?

Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.

I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath.

I need one good honky tonk angel to turn my life around.