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

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'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.

It is fortune not wisdom that rules man's life.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

What do you call a stock that's down 90%? A stock that was down 80% and then got cut in half.

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

Music is my life and my passion.

What I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do.

tears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of action that might prevent harm.

After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.