As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

How do you stand out? Just find your point-of-view.

If you're not creating, you're waiting.

And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.

I think it's important that your first film be your worst film, that one's life trajectory should go up.

If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.

I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.

I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as a stand-up comedian.

He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in a library - hardly the kind of man any girl your age dreams of ...

I think this is the essence of life: to be willing circle back, to fall in deeper, to relearn what I thought I already knew.

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

The difference between where you are today and where you'll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you've read.

Oh, this your wife, huh? A lovely lady. Hey baby, you must've been something before electricity.

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

Once, I had to clip a jacket back to take a picture, and after they were done I forgot to remove the clip until someone noticed.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.