One hates what one fears.

Black eyeliner. It’s standard. It’s all you need. It just makes the world a better place.

You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.

You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that lets you know when to laugh if you're too stupid to know when the joke is.

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person

The elixir for the vexed human spirit is quiet thinking and contemplation.

You want me to lie to you?" said McKay. I shrugged. Why not? I didn't mind lies.

We have yet to find a significant case where the company did not move in the direction of the chief executive's home.

I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

I've got a lot of nervous energy and I trip a lot. I don't have a good equilibrium. In the places where the physical comedy was necessary, it came very naturally and it was fun.

Actions speak louder than words. And sometimes inaction speaks louder than both of them.

I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.