I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

I think it's not a question of why, more a question of why not.

Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It's really worth it.

If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

When everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities.

The statement 'the Shariah says...' is thus automatically misleading, as there is almost always more than one answer to any legal question.

Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.

Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.

The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons.

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.

The Federal Reserve System is nothing more than legalized counterfeit.

Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times.