I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares?

It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it.

You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares?

I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do.

I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.

I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.

All writers are vampires.

I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260 pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295 pound now.

'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school, and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about 25 I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.

I have nothing but respect for HBO.

I like dark places.

I like idiotic comedies.

I love hearing people laugh.

I want nothing to do with privilege.

I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad.

I'm not a big, three-hour-play, Ibsen-revival kind of man.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

Advertising is the life of trade.

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

The quality will remain when the price is forgotten.

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.

When I first started making comics, I was living with a bunch of guys, old college friends. We had this deal. At the end of each day, they would ask me how far I'd gotten on my comic. And if I hadn't made my goals, they were supposed to make me feel really bad about myself. They happily obliged.

Salman is genuinely a nice man who helps people. He is someone who I trust blindly. I think he has been an important person in my life.

It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.

I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about.

A lot of people might define a life well lived by how much is in the bank. I feel like it's how much you laugh.

Sometimes you just want to write a party song.

Everyone become a creation of their environment.

I want to raise up the next generation of young people who are going to run this community. I need for them to understand government and how it works.

The toughest thing about homework is getting mom and pop to agree on the same answer.

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they think they're superstar hosts.

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.