Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

I don't always expect good from people. I always expect the bad and I am pleasantly surprised when they are nice.

I go to movies and concerts and stuff - that's why I think all my money would be gone if I weren't working because I just keep spending it, on that, and CDs, and I don't know.

I'm not much of an actor, I'm realizing.

I feel lucky to be doing TV right now because I get another chance every day.

I once heard worship defined as celebrating the availability of God.

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

We have these traditional political parties that are less and less responsive to the needs of ordinary people, so people are in search of their own values.

It is an impressive place that smells like the 1950s, when everyone wore starch white shirts and black slacks and perfect crewcuts and worked on massive industrial projects

I love the idea of creation and creativity.

When you pay attention to boredom it gets unbelievably interesting.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

Play is your route to mastery.

The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.