Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.

Neither Boncer nor Teddy comes out of the house, not even to watch from the veranda. Here, laying the dead to rest, like washing and feeding and birth, is women’s work.

Galaxies of nothing are going onin her eyes.

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions

They go'n try to stop you, they go'n try. Notice how I said true. We ain't never stopping.

Prayer is the Word of God which comes to you when you are silent enough, still enough, expectant enough to receive it.

Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned.

There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.

Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly.

Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.

It's so much fun! Girls just think that it is all about popularity, but it's not. You have to work really hard if you want to be good at cheerleading. It's just like any other sport!