My mother, she's like, She can work on herself.

Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

Part of me wanted something bloody and really fun.

I'm friends with Hank Azaria. We were on a show together 800 years ago, and we laugh every single time.

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

When I look back to when I had my first son, I was unhappy. I couldn't understand why the weight wasn't just falling off.

There just are not a lot of overweight people in Hollywood.

I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.

When you are mad at yourself, you are mad at everybody.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.

Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

I guess the subject of race is so natural to me I never think of it as hefty. It's something I talk about and joke about and discuss with my loved ones every day of my life.

As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama

do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income.

I'm so excited that my stomach is in a jiggle-jaggle of nerves. There they go again. Jiggle. Jaggle. I'm a mess.