I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting.

I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.

Thank God for acupuncture. It's been around for 2000 years. It's not going anyplace and people use it all of the time for a variety of cures and to avoid illnesses.

I have this burgeoning reputation for playing a scumbag.

Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!

You cannot go wrong with Bugs Bunny. He's the coolest cartoon character ever. I quote him all the time.

What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age.

Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well.

Well, I've seen a bunch of acupuncturists and one of my sister-in-laws is an herbalist. So I know a lot about alternative medicine. I don't know a lot about the practice but I know about the world.

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

I love getting on the subway because you get on the car, and you see the entire human race represented in any given subway car.

I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered, And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before, Suddenly ceasedTo matter.

Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J.R. Ward

Fear of failure impedes adequate self-identification

The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.

Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Too many temples where we could worship the beast.

I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write.

I was being honest - I have nothing to hide. All I do, all the time, with everybody, is tell them what I am thinking, what I am feeling.