I think it's important that your first film be your worst film, that one's life trajectory should go up.

How do you stand out? Just find your point-of-view.

If you're not creating, you're waiting.

And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.

If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.

I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as a stand-up comedian.

The world under your feet is changing & you never noticed, it's on you. If you're changing & the world failed to notice, it's not on you...

There are two types of teachers. The ones who teach you to use the text to find answers, and the ones who teach you to use the text to find another whole world of answers.

I love life because what more is there?

People love science and all it offers, but they also feel a calling in themselves to the sense of what's deeper.

When we met I was wrecked, blasted, and damned, and I am slowly pulling myself together because I can see that you are a human being and I would like to be one, too.

When we have hope, we are showing that we trust God to work out the situation. Trust is the only way we're going to make it through and be a part of God's marvelous plan for His child.

It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.

I think Chelsea Girls is a complete masterpiece and I think Andy's [Warhol] films are equally as good as the art. I think one day they will be considered equal. They aren't yet. They will be.

As a kid, I never thought I saw myself as unusual. I always thought that lots of people could do what I did. More and more I realized I was wrong.

As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.