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.

The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?

Even when we make mistakes, we hope others will love us in spite of our shortcomings - even if we don't deserve it.

Let thy vices die before thee.

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

I love eggs. When it's the season of truffles, scrambled eggs with truffles, and I'm happy. I'm smiling like that.

I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.

My favourite city is Miami. It's very fresh and the beach is sunny.

At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.

I've learned a valuable opinion does not tell you what to think, it illuminates what you should consider.

When the yearning for living ends, there can be no more birth.

If money is the only plus, I will always say no. But, if there's more, than I'm down.