I've had a nontabloid life because I had a really good family.

I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama.

'A Christmas Story' has always meant a lot to me personally.

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

I only get involved with projects as a producer if I feel creatively inspired.

No one is safe from nature's savagery, not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

Never let the negativity get to you. There are gonna be a lot of people you have to plow through, but as long as you believe in yourself, that's all that matters.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Take it, and turn to facts my fantasies.

A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.

Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can.

T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.

Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.

Respected, I almost want to be revered, that's what I'm chasing.

They had bombed and burned,killed and maimed,plundered and looted.Now they had come to claim the land.