I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.

Tape "Seinfeld" for me.

Funny is when you're serious.

And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on.

People who become comedians… come from pain, come from conflict.

I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

America is, is no longer, uh, what it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was, uh, and I say to myself, uh, I don't want that future, uh, for my children.

True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose.

With my solo music, often it's just about looking for interesting sounds that may or may not resonate emotionally.

Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade.

In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read

I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a lot of pathos in it and I'm intrigued by her.

It's because you're like that that you're still a virgin, you know.

Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues.