Don't use barbiturates before going on stage. And be honest.

I'm enjoying the opportunity that Parks And Recreation affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation.

If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day.

If your shirt isn't tucked into your pants, then your pants are tucked into your shirt.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.

Follow your gut, make a choice, and throw yourself into it. If you make a mistake, then you have merely afforded yourself a valuable lesson.

If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.

If you want to be happy in life, consider yourself a student. Every day of your life, think: how can I improve?

Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.

Every second and minute that you are not sleeping should be converted, investing your life and your time into doing that thing that you were born to do.

His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.

In every life, there comes a day of reckoning - a time when unsettled scores demand retribution, and our own lies and transgressions are finally laid bare.

A man who speaks truth is always surrounded by haters, while the rest who who admire him seldom stay in his company!

Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?

You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.

The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life

The truth will only be told over a career.