The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless.

One day you too may experience what I have experienced. So right away go and practise.

A black President? Now come on y'all, we got Clinton, that's close. He got negro tendencies.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.

From every ending comes a new beginning.

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.

While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance.