Yeah, the material's been good so far, although I'm sure there's got to be a drought coming someday.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.

This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.

I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.

I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.

TV is the best babysitter.

That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story.

When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.

Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they've animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you're reading it - so they'll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it.

As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.

But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.

I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.

It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

If you want to direct, you've got to work.

Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them.

Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?

Yeah, the material's been good so far, although I'm sure there's got to be a drought coming someday.

I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.

Relax. Just relax and have fun doing what youre doing. Dont worry so much about being results oriented. Just commit yourself to the moment.

As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

For good or bad, there is a certain level of generalisation when it comes to my work. I want to break that perception. My decision to direct 'Bombay Talkies' or to present 'The Lunchbox' is an attempt to do that. These are the films that gel well with my sensibility, and it's unfortunate, it's not the perception out there.

To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show.

There will come a day when I can no longer run. Today is not that day.

I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'.

Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist.

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.

I am not prejudiced in any way.

A few words about Sarah Palin: She is one of the most fascinating women I have ever met. She crackles with energy like a live electrical wire and on first meeting gets about three inches from your face.

When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?

There is not a single leaf which is a mere ornament; all contribute to the fruitfulness of the earth, and the support of its inhabitants.

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

Runners and yogis are alike in lots of ways, and not just because some of us need yoga to unkink what running jams. Runners and yogis are also alike because of this tortoise shell idea, this 'home' we can access inside ourselves.

Those that go searching for love, only manifest their own loveless ness. And the loveless never find love, only the loving find love. And they never have to seek for it.

Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life.

Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

Learn well how to think right and then be your own shepherd otherwise you shall be the unlucky sheep of all sorts of cunning shepherds

I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.

I'm like a plant, I reach for the sun.