I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

We're showing that there's no excuse for other nations to come together, both developed and developing, to achieve a strong global climate agreement next year.

The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.

Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.

Liars seldom believe anyone else.

This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.

TV can play a role in delivering that emotion as well as the obvious ability to reach a lot of people quickly with that message.

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

Thank ye." “For what?" “For bein’ who ye are." Gabby chuckled and shook her head, saying, “And who else could I be?