George Martin is an incredible writer.

I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

I hate that word — 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work

I love animals. All animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog — or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.

I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.

Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

Call me Elf......one more time!

I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.

The rejection of knowledge (ignorance) attracts a reaction from God.

Prayer puts God's work in His hands-and keeps it there.

The images in a dream are vastly varied and magnificently interesting.

I had had no art training.

When I need a break from the boys, I go with my girlfriend to buy pretty little dresses for her daughter.

In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

I guess I had this silly notion that things would be different now, since I was different.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.