I don't know if you can be a born-again virgin.

I don't know if you can be a born-again virgin.

All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

I always felt as a kid that I was underappreciated, invisible or weird, but I've always secretly thought people would one day appreciate what is different about me. I'm always putting that message out there.

I always see other people as predecessors and admire them.

I still feel like a nerd.

I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians.

I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.

I wanted to see how funny I could be without making the choice that every 10 minutes something big and visual had to happen.

I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls.

I'm the guy who gets uncomfortable. That's why I was able to write 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' and 'Knocked Up.' I believe in those guys.

I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.

If you look at who drives the box office numbers at these films, it's men.

It's so difficult to shock America these days.

My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it. That's how I became a writer. But when you have kids, suddenly you have to be part of things. It leads almost to a breakdown because your whole defense mechanism is now really destructive.

Television is much more difficult because at every moment the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You're in a constant debate with a gun at your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it's hard to win the arguments.

The thing that is incredibly helpful is that we screen the movies and we ask the audience if they like it or not and we ask a lot of questions and do testing on the movies. For comedies, at least, it's very helpful. If they're not laughing and they don't say that they loved it, then I have screwed up.

There are only so many hilarious actors so when they cross-pollinate, people assume it's always the same actors and directors.

There was definitely a period when I just felt out of sync with earth.

There's something honorable about holding out for love and not breaking up for the sake of the baby. I see people get divorced, and there is a part of me that thinks, I wonder how hard they tried?

To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.

Up until 'Bridesmaids', the general consensus was that women preferred comedy a bit softer.

Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time.

Deer are like dogs. Except for Bambi theyre pretty personality less.

Sometimes you need to get away for a few weeks just to figure out who you are again.

In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congresses are and have been men trained in the law. They have provided the leadership and the statecraft and the store of strength when it was needed.

I cannot live without books.

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.

When some guy shows up with a shopping bag full of records and CD's and wants me to sign every one plus fifteen pieces of blank paper I wonder what the hell is he doing with all of that?

Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy.

Old Hollywood glamour just seems, well, old.

Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement.

The scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking

I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

If British troops are committed to action, then the nation will, of course, support them. Their courage and skill is not in doubt.

When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.

It's hard when you play something that people are like, 'Wow that's really cool - you just did something really epic,' because you're not always going to be playing epic characters in a role.

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.

Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.

More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.

My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some large bones sticking out of the ground. He was enough of a geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur bones.

I think Liverpool have a long history with many great players. I hope one day to be up there with those great players. I'll try my best to write some history here.

Government on its own is always inefficient.