I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.

I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.

I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

I won't go up in a plane, but if a play crashes, I'll jump into the next one that comes along and take it up for a spin.

Self praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class and be humble.

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

So have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

I don't consider myself a political comedian because it's so hard. It takes time away from me saying terrible things about TV.

X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine.

There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.

My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.

So, a lot of my supporters back home are members of the Tea Party.

If I had a penny for every time I've been asked if I'm going to work in America.

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

We all must learn to dig down deep inside trust that inner voice and not be afraid to face and forgive ourselves.

I was in 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' and I got to do a song for the soundtrack.

Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?

Jesus showed me what it means to be holy - he did his father's will no matter how difficult it was to accomplish.

Writing a novel that crosses genres is a risk, but one well worth taking.

Writers of color are given certain messages - explicit or implicit - about what they're allowed to write about or what will be successful if they write about it. And white writers are given another set of implicit and, sometimes, explicit messages.

The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and good box-office receipts, but central to Labour's post-1997 programme has been a determination to increase access as much as excellence.

The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.

An awakened man who is driven by his heart and soul, can touch the heart of a woman he loves, without touching her

Teach me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.

You can have the greatest characters in the world and write beautifully, but if nothing's happening, the story falls on its face pretty quickly.