I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.

When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any of the other actors. It's all done separately with headphones in a voice booth.

Is it true that if you don’t USE it you LOSE it?

Everyone said to Vincent van Gogh, "You can't be a great painter, you only have one ear." And you know what he said? "I can't hear you".

Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.

I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms.

This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children.

I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious.

Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.

I ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn’t cotton candy like the guy said… my tummy itches.

Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

Do we ever get slow rain?

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain Can never rise to fight again.

As you go down the path of life, ask whats true. Not who else believes it.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

Freedom from suffering is a great happiness.

If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.

I've never had a grand plan. I've only just tried to keep open to many different possibilities, have fun and work with people who are passionate about what they do.