I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing.

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

You never can take for granted that you have a job.

You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

My heart battered against my ribs, my breath stalled and I gazed up into his laughing, smiling eyes...eyes that suddently glowed crimson and cruel.

Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I may be in therein to be content.

The field is the sole influence of the particle.

You can be in London at 10 o'clock and in New York at 10 o'clock. I have never found another way of being in two places at once.

It's not attractive when girls get super skinny. Guys don't like it. Gils don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.

I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby, those old movies.

We're happy with what we've achieved. Every record we've made has furthered the growth of our line of success. It's never disappeared or gone backward: each record sells more, each tour is bigger.

I hate all children of precocious talent.

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone