I love doing scripted things. What little acting ability I have I am holding on with my hangnails.

I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?

I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.

Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.

I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.

Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.

I wouldn't live with me, believe me. I'm moody.

I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.

I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.

I won't do reality. That is done. And I don't want people following me around with a camera 24 hours a day.

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just.

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Christianity is greatest when it is hated by the world.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.

Only idiots die for an idea! Life is greater and infinitely more valuable than all the ideas!

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.