I'm a dog person, but I don't have a pet.

Donald Trump is so universally despised, because he so often says the wrong thing and has absolutely no moral code outside of just wanting to be powerful and influential.

If an actor ever says they really enjoy the auditioning process, I truly believe that they're lying. It's an anxiety-filled waking nightmare. It's awful.

It's weird to have to look at another co-worker and have a silent discussion - any discussion - about how you are going to touch their genitals or allow them to touch your genitals.

I had grown up working in a video store, and I'd grown up more with film than I had with theater, so I kind of felt a natural call.

This is still true with auditions - you have to forget about them immediately. You have to put them out of your head, otherwise you're going to drive yourself crazy.

David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and I watched it 40 times.

Sometimes darknessis the beauty I am made of—

Forgiving others simply means that you refuse to be a prisoner of a past that you can't change, and shackled to decisions that you didn't make.

And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the place, a land of tiny poems.

Never allow people without vision to cloud your own.

To live is like to love: all reason is against it and all healthy instinct is for it.

In a country where Americans sense, quite genuinely, that their freedoms have been taken away by the government - as in the U.S. Patriot Act, as in NSA surveillance - people feel powerless.

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely.

When we change our thoughts, we can truly change the world.

I want to be successful. Not just money. Just making a successful record and a successful show... I could feel successful without selling a million records.