I do two things, " she told me. "I remind myself that it's not all about me. And I focus on the good. There's always a way to find some good.

Ain't nothing more important than loving your mama. Even if you can't understand her. Love her. That's all you gotta do.

Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.

What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.

Wrong thoughts pattern your life towards it for we live our thoughts.

I'm a plain soap kind of guy.

We are the children equally of the Sky and the Earth.

I think I signed some contract, early on in my career, that I will only kiss Steve Carell when I do a movie.

To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.

And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.

It's important to be honest enough about your work, and the areas in which you can improve. I'm still learning every day and I'm still Hungry to create more and better work, hence the name.

Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes.