Well, they put me in a booth and then did some nice things to the speaker to make it come out sounding ok.

Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.

Well, they put me in a booth and then did some nice things to the speaker to make it come out sounding ok.

We began to do little things, have little scenes where we just talked about things that had nothing to do with the plot. In fact, in the beginning, they didn't want us to do that. But as time went on, you see that in so many shows. I think we were the first to do that.

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.

I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.

My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.

People laugh at me because I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow.

Adam Shankman has got such love and passion for dance.

If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

You don't want to make records so you can win a Grammy. You make records because you want to be a musician.

Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting.

Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.

In my work, I'm always trying not to put barriers up between the 'good poor' and the 'bad poor.' I'm not sure my work will change things much, but at the very least, you want to make people feel that they are not alone.

I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Middle Eastern cuisine has the same depth of ingredients and processes as other cuisines. They just haven't had as much exposure.

I've always wanted to be older, as I think it's all right to be a little bit odd when you're out of your 20s.

I enjoy horse riding, tennis, yoga and running - it helps to clear my head, and I can do bits of yoga in between filming.

I always wanted to be an actor, but I just never told anyone. I had this superstition that if I said it out loud, it wouldn't come true.

I like to do my own make-up.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.

Choice is nothing in itself; everything depends on what one is able to choose.

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

Gratitude gives infinite fullness of life.