You don't go to Berkeley to become an actor. In fact, I don't think you go to any school to become an actor. You've just sort of got to go out there and act.

I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up.

The best thing to do, if you really want to be good, is drink vodka all day, from the second you get up to the second they say, "Cut!"

I suppose there are a lot of people who'd kill to have my career, but I still feel like a fan.

I was a terrible actor, and that's why I got the job: I would allow myself to be so bad that I lowered and got down to WWF standards.

I don't know: Why aren't people fascinated by air traffic controllers?

Why focus on what somebody might think? Nobody talks [on TV] like people really talk most of the time.

I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm. And when I started having kids, that doesn't work with kids. Kids don't understand sarcasm, and they certainly don't understand my humor.

I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin.

I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it.

I just don't feel like part of the fraternity of actors. I do geek out. All the time.

God began by revelation to build a bridge between Himself and people.

A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.

Which of us can control his feelings?

After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.

Ego synthesized is selfhood, the sense of self-importance, that you really matter ... nothing could be further from the truth.

You know what I think? I think there's a reason for everything. And I think that there's a plan for everyone. And I think that God has a big plan for me. Just not in this life.

Self-love is born out of love of another.

You make a joke out of everything. Life’s too painful not to.

I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.

Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.