I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.

I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.

I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.

People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.

I love hearing people laugh.

You know my feelings: every day is a gift. It's just, does it have to be socks?

I like idiotic comedies.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.

Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.

Because knowledge changes so rapidly, knowledge flow is more important than knowledge stock.

I have no problem at all taking my shirt off to tell a story.

When somebody who is different shows himself to be different in a good way, that's how development happens.

I wished for eternal and intriguing muteness. I would be the Mysterious Dumb Girl, the Enigmatic Elf. The human voice no longer interested me.