If I'm going to portray one of my idols and someone I feel... so strongly about, it has to be done right, and it has to be done 120 percent.
If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.
You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.
If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.
That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.
The first time someone stood up in front of the fire and told the story while illustrating it with shadows on the walls of the quarry, that was the birth of theater.
For me, honestly, the term 'role model' means for someone to be imitated, and I don't feel like anyone is to be imitated.
Sadly, I haven't been able to find my earliest stories, but the impact of being told by someone important to me that I could do something special is immeasurable.
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.
We as comics do want an immediate response from the audience. It's really quiet on the set, and there are only the producers, and the director, so a comic is looking for someone to give a reaction, even if it is the camera guy.
Everything we do impacts someone else's life.
Obama is as likely to be impeached as he is to be installed as the next pontiff. And I say that as someone who has testified in Congress that this president has violated federal laws, unconstitutionally appointed various executive-branch officers and improperly transferred money.
Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.
It's better to do your purpose imperfectly than to do someone else's purpose perfectly.
When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
We shouldn't have someone working in the Oval Office trying to discredit and smear a private individual who's just speaking their mind about an important issue facing the country. That is not going to move our nation forward.
Greenpoint was where I had my first apartment on my own without roommates or sleeping on someone's couch. It was a really important time for me.
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
I'm an improvisational actor. I like to do my own thing. But once in a while, I think you should have the self-restraint to let someone else dictate the story.
