We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

As an actor and a fledgling director, I'm used to making snap decisions that I'll have to live with.

People are human. There's such a premium today on being perfect. That's just not the way people are.

I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.

It's a little bit of a 'if you can't beat 'em - join 'em' mentality for me when I think about Twitter.

We should all be so lucky in our lives to create things that we're still talking about 25 years later.

Anybody who doesn't have a scandal I have no interest in meeting because they haven't lived their lives.

The cast of 'Parks & Rec' is just a group of unbelievably nice, humble, down to earth, hilarious friends.

There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light.

If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances.

I think that in today's world the right to privacy and freedom of the press are set on a collision course.

I'm a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that's a part of my culture.

There was a period in my life where I went out a lot and I had a really good time. But that period is over.

I've come to really like Twitter. You really do get to see what I'm about, and I like sharing with my fans.

I am getting on in years, and I have a very extensive IMDB page, and I cannot keep track of my own credits.

People should be allowed to do whatever they want in the privacy of their own home or their own hotel room.

I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people.

My issue isn't about physical aging; my issue is about wanting to remain vigorous and youthful in my spirit.

It's part of your job as an actor to put your personal problems behind you and work. Good actors can do that.

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.

I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.

To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.

My first lessons in comedy, how to construct a joke, I learned from Eileen Brennan, who had unbelievable timing.

I feel pressures to stay relevant. To stay interesting and interested. To stay at the top of my game and expand.

My two sons are the most important things in the world to my wife and I - they are what I build my world around.

My life is really based around my house and my friends and my family at the moment, and has been for a while now.

I love that movie [The Specials]. I love James Gunn. I always sort of suspected that he would do well for himself.

I don't like to let my celebrity interfere with me living my life. I like to meet people, I like to talk to people.

The term 'celebrity memoir' has gotten such a bad name now, but there used to be a little bit of an art form to it.

I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

Like most guys, I don't come to beauty regimes naturally. I'm dragged kicking and screaming by the best in the world.

The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.

My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.

As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.

I really make a point of never worrying, or trying not to worry, about the way I'm perceived. You'll go crazy otherwise.

Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He's a surfer, a great water polo player. I think he's half fish.

In the business of acting, those are the actors that make the trains run on time, you know? There's nothing without them.

I like the way you can circumvent the media gatekeepers and go right to the people. That's my favorite thing about Twitter.

Everybody is God. Everybody is the devil. And if you don't realize you have both parts, that's what really causes problems.

The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.

I remember Tucker Toomey was named so because "T's are funny!" And if Garry Marshall says it's funny, by god, it must be so.

My son Matthew's beloved dog is a Jack Russell. His name is Buster. Matthew picked him as a puppy, when he was tiny himself.

I feel like every movie is definitely the last one that I've had my moment; that I'm going to be selling autographs at malls.

I like the nexus of Bollywood and Hollywood. I'm actually shocked that there isn't more of a meld between our two industries.

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

Fred Savage,he's America's sweetheart, like I always say. One of the funniest, nicest, most decent... I love him like a brother.

I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.

I don't look back with any bitterness, though there are a couple of judgment calls and some '80s hairdos that I'd like to do over.

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