I remember my seventh-grade chemistry teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I thought, 'Hmm. OK.' That gave me motivation to prove her wrong.

What happened happened. What's gonna happen, is gonna happen.

It's so interesting to watch Ben Stiller work because he just knows what's funny.

Eddie Murphy is just so off-the-cuff and can make anything funny. You hope that someday you'll acquire that skill, but maybe you're born with that.

You can have a kid and just be off at work all the time, and it's all mom. But, I spent a lot of time with him, so now, every time I see him, he's like, "Dada!"

I took a year and a half off, when my kid was born, because I didn't want to be one of those dads where the kid doesn't know who his dad is.

I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

I've always noticed that girls cry way easier than guys do.

I'm clearly not a writer, but I'm always a fan of them.

I'm just an actor. If it's drama, I add as much humour as the part will stand. And if it's a comedy, add as much drama as you can, so it balances out; you don't wanna be too serious.

The world is full of educated derelicts

...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork.

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

Who ran to help me when I fell And would some pretty story tell Or kiss the place to make it well? My Mother.

One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.

Personalization is the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them, so that we can feel that somewhere there's a piece of software that loves us for who we are.

No cause can justify the abuse of human rights.

I was born in Tyrone, 1956, for something I didn't do. I was innocent. But they gave me life. I still remember the midwife who extradited me.

I met my fathers in prison, they too a part of a scene; digging death.

When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.