The broad comedy thing is really hard to do on film.

You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.

I like playing weird, kind of shady people.

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

I get tired of myself pretty fast. So I can't imagine other people don't get tired of me.

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.

I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

I get tired of myself pretty fast.

And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.

There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day!

It's strange, but seeing something broken is somehow worse when you can tell that it used to be beautiful.

I want to experiment with new techniques and become a "traditional baroque artist."

Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

How can we speak about "drugs"? It is like speaking about the human race - each person is different, each drug is different!

I always want to take everybody down! But I think you can do it with a smile on your face and be nice and talking to them. You don't have to be mean or rude.

I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.

Mr. President, when it rains it pours, but most Americans hold their own umbrellas

I've never met anybody in this world like me.