There's a pace in TV I like.

I don't like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature.

I like to work fast.

There's a pace in TV I like.

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

Big feature films are another world.

Now I take the summer off, relax, and I know that at the end of July we're gonna start another season.

I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do.

It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem.

I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A.

'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she’s wearing your best sweater.

Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action, you're always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

I'm very realistic in my outlook on everything in life. When I look ahead in my mind to see what's going to happen next, I see the good and I see the bad.

I'm not revealing any deep, hidden secret that there are wealthy people in Asia.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.

I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go to my ballet class. My everyday life is pretty normal.

The point to remember is that a giant leap into space can be a giant leap toward peace down below.

One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like.

My big fear is that I'll put down so many people, I'll have to leave show biz.

Andrew Carnegie loved libraries; he knew their importance to an educated society and as anchors to our communities. And so, just as some loyal baseball fans travel to attend games at all 30 major league stadiums, over the last decade or so, I have slowly, casually, visited Carnegie libraries whenever I am on the road.

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

The divine moment is holy.

There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.

When you are developing your style, you avoid weaknesses. I am not good at describing things, so I stay away from it. And if anyone is going to describe anything at all, it's going to be from the point of view of the character, because then I can use his voice, and his attitude will be revealed in the way he describes what he sees.

I love to argue and share bright ideas in a rehearsal room, and when you live with somebody who is working on the same show, the delight can go on all evening!

To me and my band, guitar riffs are what it's all about. We know that every time we jam on a great riff, we've got a fighting chance of writing a great song!

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

I can't wait for summer in the city! I love all the free activities in the parks that become available to us New Yorkers. Yoga and movie screenings in Bryant Park, concerts in Central Park - there's so much more available to the New York community in the summer! And everyone just seems to smile more.

For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

The truest poetry is the most feigning.