I have other tastes besides comedy. I love comedy. I adore it, but I love dramatic movies just as much.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

New Orleans is like the bad-kid island in 'Pinocchio.'

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.

I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids.

BAREFOOT BEACHTake off your shoes-You're on barefoot beach.Relax in the sunshine-Broken only by trees.

Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.

If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen.

Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?

You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you - and notice it, and be glad for it.