Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.

The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

Trying to fit in will not change a society. To change it, you have to be brave, fearless, and strong enough to withstand societal criticism so that you may break the boundary and let light come in.

We knit alone our life, before seeing by it our shroud. (Nous tricotons notre vie seule, Avant d'y voir notre linceul)

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Can't he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else's girlfriend?

When you gotta go through something tough, I've always been a guy that just wants to get it out of the way.

Growth springs from better recipes, not just from more cooking.

to everything there is an end - except fear.

Of all musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God.