You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.

With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!'

I had a mustache when I was 13.

You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.

I can't go anywhere without being recognized. I'm.

The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine.

I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships.

There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.'

I was a geek in high school.

It's really important to me not to be known as Ross when I'm 60.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

It's a job - someone's gotta kiss Jennifer Aniston. The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine.

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.

If there's something I want, I go for it. I just think about how I'm going to go for it.

Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?

I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people.

I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.

I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

I really believe that, as an actor, you should be constantly studying other people, and celebrity had the absolute opposite effect on me. It made me want to hide - to run away and hide.

I've made a good amount of money. I'm very happy that I can now support my theatre company and support friends and family, and I'm ready to maybe go back to school and change careers.

If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy.

London is completely unpredictable when it comes to weather. You'll start a scene, and it's a beautiful morning. You get there at 6 in the morning, set up, you start the scene, start shooting. Three hours later, it is pitch black and rainy.

The biggest effect celebrity had on me was that I stopped being open and receptive and started to walk around with my head down.

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

When you're playing the same character for a decade it's natural that there are moments when you want to try something new.

I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really get attached to it as much as, like, country artists. That's really who I listen to.

"You can believe something really hard", faith says, "and still be wrong".

Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.

Unlike Mitt Romney, President Obama is standing up for Planned Parenthood.

Once you feel nice about yourself, you have planted the first seed to develop self-confidence.

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.

I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television really should be.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there's nothing more satisfying.

I don't think of myself as a role model, but I can see that I am.

I moved to Chicago when I was 28, and I wasn't completely idealistic about going to Second City and making a living from comedy, but I knew it would be great for the resume.

My name? Of course it helps. If you've got it, use it. I'm proud of it, for sure.

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

Its hard to stay committed when our heart isnt in it.

The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's a fact.

You know what a wifey means? It's like your other half. Like when you get married, like, that's your wife!

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.