It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

Love is the only disease that makes you feel better.

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny

Words are tools of imagery in motion.

When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it ... What we're searching for is what we lack.

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.

A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.

That's my fault, of course, because I behaved stupidly, like a child, because I didn't like feeling rejected. I need to learn to lose a little better.

The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.

Leap and the net will appear.

The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

I needed to feed my family. I read a couple of the episodes. How can you keep on doing the same thing?

Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid rejection

The things I did on Saturday Night Live are going to stay as Saturday Night Live. You've never seen Eddie Murphy do a Gumby movie. There's a lot more new material inside of me.

One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.