If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.

The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

The problem is not the problem. The problem is how you think about the problem.

A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.

There is no balm in Gilead, but there is balm in God. There is no physician among the creatures, but the Creator is Jehovah-rophi.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

One of the first things you ever learn as a stand-up is don't show fear.

Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.

For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was when I was singing.

Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.

I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip