When I started I’d fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks.

And I’m as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being.

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It’s sure been tough on my nails.

Once you’ve been really bad in a movie, there’s a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

There’s people that figure if they hang out with you, all of a sudden they’re going to be successes. I’ve had two or three stalkers in my life.

How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing.

I was always very shy but my older brother, Darryl, was working and my mother couldn’t leave me home alone so I was dragged along to the studio.

My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet – especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult.

I become kind of obsessive about research.

The more work I do, the more important it is to work with people I like – who are very talented.

I don’t read my own reviews and I haven’t for probably 15 years. I read other people’s reviews, though.

I don’t have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House.

If there is some art involved, I’d like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.

Comedy is so hard; it’s so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

Home Alone was a movie, not an alibi.

Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can’t understand either of us.

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you’re willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year,...

I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don’t have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating...

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living...

I’d rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don’t really care for.

An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she’s too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn’t stand...

I’m very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there’s no sure set,...

Hoods are good parts because they’re always flashy and attract attention. If you’ve got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.

I make time to write.

All too often sexuality and race and all of those things get stereotyped in films; we didn’t do that in any way, and I’m very proud of that.

It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, ‘Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after’ and the...

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

There’s been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I’ve just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it’s not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed,...

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn’t come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

Kerry is an adult – he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it’s always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It’s not really real to me; there’s no reality to it.

I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and...

With what’s happened in the world the last three years, it’s easier to see why it’s become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father’s life.

I never, ever would or did rob anyone in my life.

I’m not a literary writer. I didn’t go to whatever school it is or have the mentor you need to get reviewed in the New York Times.

It’s something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.

I also learned to separate my experience on the set from how I felt about my performance in the movie. Because most of the time I just hate myself.

If a column is crying out for a good line and I can’t come up with it, I troll for help. Communal humor is good, especially if you involve your boss.

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.

It’s hard to explain why I like Europe so much.

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nuture.