Lots of people fantasize about what it would be like if they were president... Most think they'd be decent and wouldn't be corrupted at all, that they'd remain true to themselves.

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.

The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.

I'm a real pushover for animals.

The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.

But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage.

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

Just because you're not sweating doesn't mean you're not putting in the work.

I smiled at him. Not even Wyatt would have known how to be this honorable when talking about a girl that had hurt him.

If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, "Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?," then that's a really good question to ask.

I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

It would take less than a second for you to die. But that's quite long enough to be in mortal agony, don't you think?

One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.

Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.

I had a paper route when I was a kid. I was supposed to go to 2,000 houses. Or two dumpsters.

As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.