You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

When I was a little kid, I told stories.

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life.

On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.

Comfort is the enemy of the artist.

Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret.

Earth is the holiest place in the Universe, loving the earth, and loving life is the way to generate positive vibrations.

Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint

Focus only on your successes and you will never know failure...

Men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.

Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust.

With rap music, there are billions and billions of samples that are uncleared that people have never been bothered about on an underground level.

In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.