I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

I hate that word — 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work

I love animals. All animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog — or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.

I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.

George Martin is an incredible writer.

Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

Call me Elf......one more time!

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

My friends, life is so serious that if you are not aware of whom you are, your "youniversity" will be prestigious but unknown!

And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.

I don't write comedy. I write drama that's funny.

Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

A plausible rumor / Seems a lot more believable / Than the truth itself.

Too often we pray to have patience, but we want it right now!

The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.