As an artist, I didn't think I was gonna get an Oscar. I've never said this, but I've never looked at it like, "We're gonna win Best Supporting Actor."

My mother and father have brought us up to respect everyone with the same equal love and honor them, and you're supposed to honor your profession.

My whole thing was this was to immortalize my family's name. To get the people who never would have appreciated him to appreciate him, there's nothing a son could want more.

Anything in the entertainment business, there's sharks coming around. It's about staying true to yourself and making sure that, when you look in the mirror, you're happy with what you see.

Experience is never at bargain price.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos.

I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.

Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance.

Knowledge isn't always good for you.

Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.