I decided to not just be about protesting or speaking out against certain things, but actually trying to get things done. That has been tremendously fulfilling for me.

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.

Ambition is soul set on fire.

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

There is a much bigger issue with student loan rates, the cost of tuition; those are some huge problems that need to be resolved.

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

Let us remember that all reforms are interdependent, and that whatever is done to establish one principle on a solid base, strengthens all.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

I'm pretty clear about what I'm capable of doing.

As long as I leave my frustration behind, I know I am moving toward my goal again.

I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.