You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good.

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.

I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.

You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee shop, and have a different kind of life.

What you learn in any acting class is how to make a fool of yourself and enjoy things and get out of your head.

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

I don't need to be crazy rich and crazy famous. I would just like to keep going.

The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?"

If I had a child and she was a girl, I'd hope she'd do something different from me.

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.

I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.

I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

I'm working for the Lord, and even though the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is.

Work your fingers to the bone and what do you get? Boney fingers.

Your best players have to unite and inspire the group... otherwise, they'll divide the group

Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.

To have a pure heart, we must submit all thoughts to the authority of Christ. If we are willing to do that, he will change us to be like him.

I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I had never had.