The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.

Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.

Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.

A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night

Some poeple just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

Oh great. Yoda captured us.

Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.)

They call me, The Sharkalator

At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.

I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.

Words are more dangerous than swords and guns. They reach further and hurt deeper.

Comedy, such a lovely lady, she'll pick you up, you your feeling blue.

Over and over again, we must stress that a healthy ecology is the basis for a healthy economy.

I like the process of writing songs. It makes me feel good.

An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.

The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever non-Platonic.

I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.

The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.