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There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.
Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.
The only emotional connection of relevance is with my dog. My relationship with my dog, it's ridiculous.
I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'
It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not.
The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.
You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.
After I quit drinking, I realized I am the same asshole I always was; I just have fewer dents in my car.
I was possibly shy. I don't know why some people are shy and some aren't. Some people blush very easily.
Fame is O.K. I hate it, but it's O.K. I'm beginning to understand how I can be hidden. It's an attitude.
It was the challenge of that that I found daunting, but also engaging and interesting [to play Maigret].
For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back.
Everyone has a really short attention span, and you have to bombard them with content, content, content.
I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.
I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.
I wasnt particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.
My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.
Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.
I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.
If you want to reach every person in the audience, it's not about being bigger, it's about going deeper.
I want to continually play characters that speak to me, but also are different than what I've just done.
After 'Quantum Leap,' a lot of sci-fi things came my way, and I had to say, 'I can't do that right now.'
Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy, anything that has a good story.
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it.
Sometimes it's okay to give yourself a pat on the back and say, 'That was cool. That made me feel good.'
The two symbols of the Republican party: an elephant and a big fat white guy who's threatened by change.
Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.
It's fun to be around people who don't think I'm creepy for making videos in my bedroom on the Internet.
When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.
True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.
I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.
Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve
t's not that I'm particularly shy but I just don't like the idea of publicising myself as a 'celebrity'.
Rupert Murdoch is in bed with Cameron. Of course they want to kill the BBC... anybody who is in the way.
According to God's word, everybody at some point is going to be given the opportunity to know the truth.
I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.
I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.
If I can do quality work with wonderful writers and directors and producers... that's the cherry on top.
When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed.
The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.
It's nice to find people who live on the fringe, finding one another and she's just unrelentingly funny.
I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.
I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.
All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.
The mentoring program [of the Steve Harvey foundation] is to teach young boys the principles of manhood.
I got married for the wrong reasons. I was tired of being alone. I have to own that. It was me, not her.
If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.