When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there's nothing more satisfying.

I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York.

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.

The weddings that I've been in have been pretty mellow.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

I think no matter what kind of life you have, whether it looks one way to people or another way, you always have moments when you imagine a different life.

There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.

He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is nothing we can predict or know for certain in this world except death.

Preparation:allows you to prevent . . .the intensity of the ordeal.

No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.

People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets

If we're open it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives.

Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.

Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards.

At the toughest times I recalled how the children and the elderly looked at me with trustful eyes. Your faith has given me strength.

It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.