Perhaps 'Big Bang' fans feel so protective of the show because it is, despite being a hit show on a big network, something of a word-of-mouth phenomenon.

I bought a little hideaway up north, so I'll ship my motorcycle up there. It's much less dangerous than West Hollywood.

It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.

Right now, Im very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.

People are complicated; you put two of them together and it's generally a mess, but hopefully a beautiful mess.

It's always a really great thing to have an actor that does make you want to up your game. It naturally motivates you to do and try things that maybe you wouldn't necessarily do or try.

I haven't really addressed those rumors because why defend yourself against something that isn't offensive?

I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.

I know a lot of incredibly, profoundly talented, skilled people that aren't given certain opportunities or any opportunities, and that aren't working.

I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez, I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation', so I was about 13 or 14.

I love to work. I absolutely love to work.

I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.

They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.

If you don't quit and don't cheat and don't run home when trouble arrives you can only win.

What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.

I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.

That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.

Just because you're a man doesn't mean that you can't raise your kid. I think that families should stay together, but if you are a single father, don't give up no matter what they say.

Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody without the spark of empathy.

Art is an artificial organization of experience.

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.