I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.

Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.

Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master.

Being a barber is about taking care of the people.

There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.

The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it.

I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor.

Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

Listen to other people. Respect the other people in the band, and work together to create something that is larger than the sum of its parts. And have fun.

God is the embodiment of compassion. He watches for a grain of goodness or humility so that He can reward it with tons of grace.

The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success.