Find the most talented person in the room and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. try to be helpful.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

I collect spores, molds, and fungus.

I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work.

Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it.

The empath helps others by absorbing some of their pain, but who helps the empath?

The best stories are the ones with the unexpected plot twists that no one would have guessed, even the writer.

This was the first piece to the whole story—the beginning.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope in the one case we have nothing to lose in the other everything to gain.

Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

Yoga means union, that in your experience, everything has become one.

I can put my whole fist in my mouth! Wanna see?

These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.

We're nothing without science. Nothing.

Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.