It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor. It doesn't work very often in my experience.

The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.

If the doors aren't open, just kick them in and keep walking.

Sometimes you've got to just commit to the idea and press forward and trust that you made the right decision.

You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

I stopped using Twitter for a while just because I got sick of it and I started using it again, but I don't check the "mentions."

You really don't settle on an idea until you're really sure it's the best idea. Then once you settle on it you commit to it entirely. That was always the plan.

I got a lot of texts from friends and emails from friends and most of them were just pure jealousy.

You should be nice to people because it's better to be nice to people than mean to people, not because you think there's something in it for you.

I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.

I would far rather add a character who generates strong feelings than someone who just kind of floats along, generating medium-warmth smiles of gentle affirmation.

Telling yourself you like the way you look is easy. Believing it is an entirely different kettle of whales.

Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible).

When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.

Dogs are a habit, I think.

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

Composers don't just sit in a room and write things that are in their heads, they actually listen to a lot of music, pop music, jazz, rock and roll, any combination of music that catches their ear.

I often use official documents or bureaucratic forms within my work. I find their structure and language style leaves a lot of room for poetry and my own interpretation.

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

Things have a price and can be for sale. But people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things.

A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles.