I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.

You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur.

When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.

When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and so surreal.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

When I was doing 'The Sopranos,' I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

Hope comes in many forms.

It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

You must continue to believe with all your heart. Sometimes belief is all if takes to make something real.

Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.

Your mind is your servant, your body is your vehicle and your soul is your residence.

A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

As the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill So my body leaves no scar On you and never will

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

In every committee of twelve, one will love you and one will betray you.

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.