My job changes very little because I've found that the more you try to be funny, the less funny you become.

It costs nothing to say something kind. Even less to shut up altogether.

I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

My worst day is still a really good day. I complain, but I catch myself and count my blessings. I am truly blessed.

Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

Thank God there is a such thing as hiatus. We got the first 'Dr. Horrible' done in six days, we banged it out.

I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.

Do something today you've been afraid to do. A decision based on fear is the wrong decision.

What turned me on to comedy was - well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who can make me laugh.

I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.

I slowly came to realize that this job of being an actor, you spend most of your time looking for work. That is your job. Your job is auditioning. You spend very little of your time actually working.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.

When you feel your book is the height of irrelevance you can return to the excitement of the daily news.

I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock.

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.