You can have a kid and just be off at work all the time, and it's all mom. But, I spent a lot of time with him, so now, every time I see him, he's like, "Dada!"

What happened happened. What's gonna happen, is gonna happen.

It's so interesting to watch Ben Stiller work because he just knows what's funny.

Eddie Murphy is just so off-the-cuff and can make anything funny. You hope that someday you'll acquire that skill, but maybe you're born with that.

I took a year and a half off, when my kid was born, because I didn't want to be one of those dads where the kid doesn't know who his dad is.

I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

I've always noticed that girls cry way easier than guys do.

I'm clearly not a writer, but I'm always a fan of them.

I'm just an actor. If it's drama, I add as much humour as the part will stand. And if it's a comedy, add as much drama as you can, so it balances out; you don't wanna be too serious.

I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me.

We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world.

even there a shining is flowing from all the stonesthough the eyes are not yet made that can see it

This is how you explain how you feel: broken words and hard truths.

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.

A girl is a good deed and a boy is a bounty. Good deeds are rewarded while people are held accountable for bounties.

Rembrandt's first name was Beauregard, which is why he never used it.

Photons have neither morals nor visas.

It's an either/or world now.

If you love someone and they reject and neglect, you gotta move on, there's no point running in circles for someone when there's no reward.

When I leave the office on January 20th, I will leave even more idealistic than I was the day I took the oath of office.