I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.

My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.

Fashion is so over the top.

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.

I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.

Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.

I know that I'm better as an actor when I'm working with a good actor. I think anytime you're working with a better actor, it makes you a better actor.

Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

[Smil] estimates that two of every five humans on Earth today would not be alive if not for Fritz Haber's invention of the Haber-Bosch process.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

Some think that they know everybody, but they really don't know themselves.

Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.

Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life.

Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.

We shall immunize every child in Africa to get rid of this terrible disease forever.

It had better be quirky or perverse or thoughtful enough so that you hit some chord in them. I mean we've all read pieces where we thought, 'Oh, who gives a damn.'

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.