I like grown up comedy.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Karaoke is the great equalizer.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

If Jesus came back and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing-up.

Do not make your current partner pay for the crimes and misdemeanors of your previous partners.

I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

Canada, the drinking age is 18, that's unnecessary. Nobody wants to get loaded around people who have hope and their whole lives still ahead of them.

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist, people are like, "Ugh."

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.