I love any scene where there's a physical confrontation. It reminds me that I'm in show business and I play pretend for a living.

My daughter got me a 'World's Best Dad' mug. So we know she's sarcastic.

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.

You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.

Don't say you're going to stop eating red meat when you like red meat.

If you surround me with darkness, suddenly, I am "somewhat fun."

Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.

We don't feel constrained by what we did in the past.

The world needs less destruction.

The laugh is what trumps everything.

If you put out acceptance and warmth, you tend to attract the same.

My mother describes me as 'a real hero . . . just like your grandfather'. But I do not know what to do with this accolade for her son, other than let her have moment, or it helps her back here.

Why can't the Jews and the Arabs just sit down together and settle this like good Christians?

The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.

I'm married to the person I fell in love with.

A logoless company is a faceless man

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

As love increases, prudence diminishes.

The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.

Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.