Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

When I was a little kid, I told stories.

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life.

On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.

You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives.

Comfort is the enemy of the artist.

The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you

Preventing a suicide is not necessarily a beneficent act if it forces the potential suicide to continue in a life of misery.

If you can’t see the feelings in a donkey, a ship, or a delicate tool, then it’s just as easy to not see them in your brother or sister when you can profit by treating them badly.

Wars are made to make debt.

Once you learn to be happy, you won't tolerate being around people who make you feel anything less.

I realize that I am never going to grow up.

If we spent as much time lifting our children as we do criticizing them, how effectively we could help them to see themselves in a more positive light!

I often think we're most happy when we forget the time.

Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.