I was genuinely starstruck when I met Kermit the Frog. Like many stars here tonight, he's a lot shorter in real life.

You've got to try and do your best, and the failure is what's funny. But you can't be aware of the failure, you've just got to keep trying to do your best.

There are a lot of good shows that don't get picked up. Like that Ben Stiller pilot, Heat Vision And Jack? That would have been a great show, but somehow it slipped by.

My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen.

It's easy to struggle in New York. I think New York is a bit expensive.

I think the radio is kind of cool, because you're really free to do whatever you want, because you can go into another world. Whereas in TV, you have to make that world.

I'm easy to get along with, and intolerant.

At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die.

Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known as the New Zealand idiot.

I don't know, man. Look at me. I've changed. I've grown up. I've got a job, got a career ... I drink coffee now.

I definitely miss New Zealand. Mainly friends and family.

It's your life and no one else cares as much about it as you should.

Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.

The secret is not to think, we think in words. And what lies beyond the reality we see is a truth that words can't contain, the secret is to feel.

The government can make laws, but only the God can give self-esteem where there is none

the best ideas flow at night

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.

I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.