Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

When I was a little kid, I told stories.

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life.

On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.

You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives.

Comfort is the enemy of the artist.

Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret.

If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.

Rest as if you’ll live forever

The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

After all, no relationship could function or survive under the burden of total honesty.

Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks.

The average late-night viewer is in their mid-50s and the average viewer of TBS is in their 30s and is largely African-American and Hispanic, already, before I even get there.

Reality is everywhere, and to find It 'you' must first disappear.

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.