I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

I got my degree in rhetoric.

Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you.

My biggest fear is the ocean. It's a great big, powerful sea toilet.

I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.

I think all shows change as they age as do the people who make the shows. As do the people who watch the shows. All targets are moving.

I think this [Feels like Christmas] is one of the greatest, most unsung albums ever. It's Cyndi Lauper, and it's called Hat Full Of Stars. She's so underrated.

If for no other reason than it's just fun to watch people age, and it's fun to watch what happened to '80s hairdos and outfits, and what they look like now.

I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far'.

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.

In general, those who defend capitalism are basically out of touch with reality.

There's a general intuition around the nonprofit world these days that younger generations are less likely to join. But I have found in my research that that's quite wrong.

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.

Religions die slowly.

There is a dharma for yourself, for someone else, for a family, for a nation, for a universe. There are collective and individual dharmas.

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.