Some jobs you do - maybe you don't - are jobs that pay mortgages and some are art and I don't care about not being paid on those.

I love Morocco - it's a real challenge to all five senses. You think you know something, and you don't. It's wonderful. It keeps you on your toes that way.

Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.

It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.

I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.

The Tonys are also kind of like a homegrown party. You know everybody.

The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.

When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!

You know, I don't think, you know, therapy never ends, really.

It's fun to play happy people.

If your body is excited to do something, that's what you should be doing. Or if it really scares you, you should be doing it.

By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.

Please don't tell me there's no need to worry, it's the only thing I'm any good at.

I feel like I have an affiliation with the '90s. I feel like a lot of things going on in fashion and pop culture were loud and outlandish.

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

Life is not black and white. The closes we ever get to either of those colors is wearing them.

You know, when you're relaxed, you're putting it out there, and then it comes, oh, I can do that.

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

The funnier the material, the funnier I could make it.