It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem.

'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.

I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A.

Now I take the summer off, relax, and I know that at the end of July we're gonna start another season.

I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do.

Big feature films are another world.

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

I don't like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature.

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

When you are reading something and you have people pop up in your head you are just sort of stuck with it.

Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.

They don't want you to jet ski, they don't want you to smile.

I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.

When Jesus died on the cross and cried out, 'It is finished!' He not only died for our sins, but for our diseases too.

I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!