And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on.

You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.

Tape "Seinfeld" for me.

Funny is when you're serious.

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

People who become comedians… come from pain, come from conflict.

I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.

The world will be brighter and wiser without religions, but it will surely be darker and more hopeless without God!

As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.

Everything that occurs to us in life is a resource, an experience that we can learn from and grow from.

He knows I’ve seen something in him. Something I recognize, only because it exists in me too.

I only watch MSNBC for the news.

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.

America champions the underdog. We champion the underdog until he's not the underdog anymore, and he annoys us.

Stranger in a strange country.

It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow.