Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun.
I trained in the theatre and I love the theatre. I get such a thrill seeing anything in the theatre.
Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
In my career, I've had people talking about different things many times, but then not get nominated.
I actually, legitimately feel that I'm not busy enough. I want to be so busy that it's overwhelming.
I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.
I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch.
Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most.
If you're in an Egyptian film and you're not Egyptian, you have to wear mascara and stuff like that.
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
Yoga has allowed me to bring my complete spirit together, which allows me to do less, which is more.
Creatively, it's great, because when you write your own movies, you get to create whatever you want.
I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.
I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.
When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool.
Study up on the Eastern religions. They're the only ones that are realistic. There's no answer, see.
But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us.
If someone's trying to intimidate me, male or female, I don't respect them enough to be intimidated.
When you love what you do, then you're talking to one of the luckiest guys on the face of the earth.
The Queen of England gave me the honor of the Order of the British Empire for working with children.
Love scenes are extremely difficult. You're always within a millimeter of sentimentality and 'yuck.'
GOOD IDEAS ALTER THE BALANCE IN RELATIONSHIPS. THAT IS WHY GOOD IDEAS ARE ALWAYS INITIALLY RESISTED.
The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.
I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.
Most of the time when you do a job, a play or a film, you're wondering, "Will there be an audience?"
Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.
Policymakers are not the change makers. Because policymakers can't make policy unless we allow them.
I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.
I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
Let me tell about Tennessee. If your car breaks down in Tennessee, you have just moved to Tennessee.
I did a club one night - the speakers were old as hell. My jokes were coming out in black and white.
I believe with faith all is possible. An answer to prayer is greatest positive feedback you can get.
If you look at all forms of collectivism, be it communism or fascism, people are reduced to animals.
I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.
Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
I create for each individual woman to reflect her definite sense of personal style and unique beauty
Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen.
First job I went out on in new York I got, and when I came back, the first job I went out on, I got.
Sometimes you can have a reputation for not being relatable and nice because you had a bad day once.
The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us.
If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.