The biggest compliment I think an actor can get is I can't imagine anyone else in the role.

Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

Working with Jim Carrey is an absolute gas. I have never laughed so hard for so long. Had he been on-board for the sequel of Dumb & Dumber, I would've jumped on, with no hesitation.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

I was haunted by trainers going "Up, up, up, get up." You find yourself picking your head up and then realizing, They aren't talking to me.

I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.

When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect.

I think the world of politics is pretty sleazy.

All is as thinking makes it so

Often, in great discovery the most important thing is that a certain question is found.

One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.

From suffering that has been/ Decreed no man will ever find escape