I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.

Oh, the weather outside is weather.

A lot of people say, "What's the worst part about being an actor?" And the worst part is that you're not a musician.

Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn't last 22 minutes. It lasts forever.

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

We all have different sides of our personalities, so I'd love to play some more different parts too.

There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.

It's the solitude that slays you. Maybe because you'd expected ruin to arrive in a grander and more romantic form.

Sometimes, you can try all you want to change something, but no matter what you do, nothing will change. The key is to at least know that you tried to make a difference.

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

We dared not charge them except all together... for they were so numerous that they could have blinded us with clods of earth, if God, of His great mercy, had not aided and protected us.

If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.

You know the one I want to do? I want to make Batgirl.

Art is a platform where self-expression should not be limited. I'm here to inspire. There is no age limit to that.