If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.

As far as how I approach the humor, I think the best comedy is going to happen when I'm myself and act organically to a news item or situation.

When your sense of worth exceeds your conditions, conditions will shift to match your vision.

If we're trying to protect the American public, we should not put in place a travel ban.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.

There is no rigorous definition of rigor.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.