I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

Everybody needs to go to Mongolia just to see what it is to be a human being again.

There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

I've been really into boyfriend blazers, I like mixing tweeds with floral fabrics. The masculine and feminine look.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.

The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections, They scorn the best I can do to relate them.

We’re here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.

I've always been freaked out in my mind performing.

I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.

So easy, when you know how.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.

I feel like Aaron brings out the best in me

I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.