I always liked circuses, so I would have enjoyed that.

The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting.

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

If it was Europe, I just picked a country that I hadn't been to, but I didn't try to check up on what was going on in the country or anything like that. I just went and had a good time and met a lot of very nice people who are still my friends.

I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I mean, whole generations come along liking that stuff and that's great.

When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working.

I always liked circuses, so I would have enjoyed that.

Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.

The movie wasn't a hit, although it did well in Europe for some reason.

People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.

You see I have to be in the clinic every Thursday and it's in Phoenix so I have to fly down or drive down. It has to be every Thursday for this damn stuff they're giving me.

I used to not stutter any. Oh, I did when I was a kid, I stuttered, I had a bad stutter until I was probably between the second and third grade and a guy got rid of it for me.

I tell ya, I could have got some more jobs if I'd tried, but I went to Sweden instead.

Well, you'll find the most boring part of it is the waiting, at least if it's in films anyway. Television's a lot faster, but the product... I don't think it's as good as a film.

So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences.

Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

Never was I booed.

Committing to a particular goal publicly puts pressure on oneself. It becomes an enormous action-forcing mechanism and often helps you achieve more than you might have had you kept your goals to yourself.

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.

I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.

And under our system, much like you see in the U.K., of course, a party working with another party can form a coalition and govern the country.

Through sites like MySpace, people coalesce into interest groups, and this gives me the opportunity to do vast mailshots to people who like similar things.

My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars. And I bought a red Corvette for $45,000 dollars. I'm thinking, 'I've got 45 grand left!' Taxes didn't even come into my equation. At the end of the first year of making 90 grand I was 25, 30 in the hole. We live in this baller, spend-money culture.

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

Paychecks cant buy passion.

I'm not recognized very often, and if I am, it's a die-hard Veronica Mars fan. Which is usually flattering and an honor. I really try not to think about it.

Limitations seem real when we lack faith and belief. With faith and belief, anything is possible.

The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice.

I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn't you? Because you smell lovely.'

Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm.

Football is a game you're supposed to have fun in.

For stage wear and gowns, Julien McDonald, who is a friend of mine. I love that he can be totally over the top for stage wear!

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

Not only are pasta dishes delicious, but they are also great, easy options for a quick dinner during a busy weekday.

If we want to make Tiger Woods's or Al Gore's face, the best thing would be to have them come to our light stage so we can scan their faces for our database. But in a couple of hours, all we can do is find a face which looks similar and then correct it.