If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.

Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.

If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.

...but I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation.

You’re the one sitting there with a boner. You’llterrify your charity guys, walking in with that thing pointingat them.

Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.

Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.

I'm actually the last person to ask about school. I kinda ducked out at 12, before all that stuff might have happened. I left school after sixth grade and was basically home-schooled after that.

Make them care, Mattie,' she said softly. 'And don't you ever be sorry.' -Emily Wilcox

The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'