If I can surround myself with hilarious people every day, I will always want to go to work.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

You can never stop discovering music.

I sometimes think you despise poetry, ' said Phineas. 'When it is false I do. The difficulty is to know when it is false and when it is true.

A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies.

O: Hey youngman, you should respect me!Y: Hey oldman, you should understand me!

There is always someone better off than you, and there is always someone worse off than you.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

Girls are soft and pretty.

I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the night.

Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.

The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.

It helps to know there is going to be continuity.