When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.

Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.

My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.

Fashion is so over the top.

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.

I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.

Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.

I know that I'm better as an actor when I'm working with a good actor. I think anytime you're working with a better actor, it makes you a better actor.

Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

Jousting with an obvious hoodlum couldn't hurt.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time.

Don't hate me forever, Arty," whispered Holly. "I couldn't bear that.

Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.

Leave people better than you found them.

I am showing solidarity while being different. Or if you prefer, I am being different while being in solidarity.

I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.

A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.