People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.

The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

I can't think of too many things as exciting as reading a book for the first time!

But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.

You act like the sorcerers are invading the continent for the sole joy of hunting me down and lobbing me off of tall objects.

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well.

At the end of the day, every child has learned the Lesson of Spin: Almost every wrong action can be stripped of consequences, along with the need for feelings of guilt and remorse.

Life is my business; business is not my life.

The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.

Faith is not only in the heart; it should be put into words.

I have like 10 different processes I go to. My favorite one is to just go to an obscure neighborhood I haven't been to in decades and just wander around.

I was better at both ends, defensively and offensively, It was more of a well-rounded game. I want to add to that.