When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.

There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

Life is fun with my husband.

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

We are called with a special calling, and we have a special mission to perform.

It's an amazing thing to say, 'I'm beautiful,' without feeling like you're cocky.

I am the president of the sorority and I'm sure there are plenty of people I've pissed off enough to go on a killing spree.

This is not a just image, this is just an image.

That's when you really lose people, you know.When the pain passes.

I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.