Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

I hate that word — 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work

I love animals. All animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog — or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.

I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.

George Martin is an incredible writer.

Call me Elf......one more time!

I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

All my life, since I came to the Institute, you were the mirror of my soul. I saw the good in me in you. In your eyes alone I found grace. When you are gone from me, who will see me like that?

Juno MacGuff: [yelling through the house] Dad? Mac MacGuff: What? Juno MacGuff: Either I just peed my pants or um... Mac MacGuff: *Or*...? Juno MacGuff: THUNDERCATS ARE GO!

No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.

I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.

Timidity puts obstacles in your path, boldness eliminates them.

As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind.

One of the fundamental conditions of happiness is to know that everything that one does has a meaning in eternity