I don't get to watch Futurama, until it's on TV.

I don't get to watch Futurama, until it's on TV.

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.

As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.

But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.

Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands.

I'm not like a high intellectual.

I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.

If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won't leave people saying, 'Gee, it could have been better, it could've been this, it could've been that.'

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.

Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.

To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.

Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

You watch people and study them the way an alien would.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.

Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.

Genuine dialogue not rhetorical bomb throwing leads to progress.

You gotta run more than your mouth to escape the treadmill of mediocrity. A true hustler jogs during the day, and sleepwalks at night.

Of course I want the Furys, of course I want the Joshuas, but the question is, do they want me?

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

Seeing eye to an eye is a must, especially when there lies a case, or an intent, to meet; even by infinity

Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.

I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.

When I began modelling in my late teens, I started to earn a lot of money very, very quickly, but I'd never been shown how to manage it properly.

I've been through a lot off the field. I think that kind of translates onto the field. Football serves for a lot of life lessons, and so it allows me to stay humble and continue to work.

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing.

I hate to admit this, but I've never actually hit anyone. I don't even kill wasps or spiders. I'm pretty veggie as well. In fact, really, I'm New Age.

I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something.

If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance.

I take, like, 500 selfies to get one I like.

We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.

Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else.