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.

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.

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.

We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

A glad heart is a flowing stream.

Just about every available female--and some unavailable--seemed to think the way to his heart was through his blood sugar levels.

Mountain, mountain, mountain, marking time. Each nameless, wall beyond wall, wavering redefinition of horizon.

I've stuck by being modest, honest and humble, because I think you'll get more appreciated that way and we all want to be appreciated in this world.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you down in the center of the earth.

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.

I shift from one foot to the other, trying to get a good look at him. When I finally do, I look away. His eyes were already on me, probably drawn by my nervous movement.