If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.

Youre welcome to take a bath. You look like the second week of the garbage strike.

It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.

It was a blast. I was doing everything that teenagers do and everything people in their twenties do. I was playing as hard as I was working, which was an effort to really balance my life.

I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.

If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it's amazing how good we are at it.

I've got this fear of becoming comfortable.

I'm a big fan of 'National Geographic', the magazine and the channel. Anything to do with the natural world. For years, when I was younger, I was convinced I would be a nature photographer, but that didn't pan out.

The future is in the hands of those who explore and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love.

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

TPP is a job killer.

I didn't audition for the part! The role was offered to me, and I was so excited to be a part of 'The Haunting Hour.' It is such a cool show and it was so much fun shooting the 'Intruders.'

When I'm skiing, I listen to electronic music. It's repetitive and let's me get into a groove and crank out the miles.

Dont give up now. Chances are your best kiss your hardest laugh and your greatest day are still yet to come.

MS doesn't define who I am.

I don't know a kid who grew up in the '90s who wasn't obsessed with Disney, and I guess I never grew out of that phase, honestly. It's not just Disney: it's anything that has to do with fairytales for me. I think I just have Peter Pan Syndrome or something.

Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.

The insignificant the empty is usually the loud and after the manner of a drum is louder even because of its emptiness.

When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then.

I'm ridiculously proud of my children. More so than any of my books. I suspect I wouldn't have written any of them if I hadn't been lucky enough to have this huge family.