Can you really believe that a drop of urine is an infinity of monads, and that each of these has ideas, however obscure, of the universe as a whole?

She doesn’t like you, McNab.“I knoooow. I find that really attractive in a woman.

I want my name to be a brand in comedy. I hope my name stands for comedic excellence.

When you walk on the set, whatever it is, you commit yourself to the job. You're committing yourself to doing the best you can do with it, no matter what you feel about it, and that never changes.

There is no wrong way to be a woman

We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.

I felt for a really long time, "When I grow up I want to be an actor." And now I'm like, "Oh, this is it now. This is my life."

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.