We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.
Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic.
As long as you feel like a victim, you are one.
That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.
I don't remember what my favourite comedy film is - truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter.
Don't be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down.
I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.
Much of the Constitution is remarkably simple and straightforward - certainly as compared to the convoluted reasoning of judges and law professors discussing what is called 'Constitutional law,' much of which has no basis in that document. . . . The real question [for judicial nominees] is whether that nominee will follow the law or succumb to the lure of 'a living constitution,' 'evolving standards' and other lofty words meaning judicial power to reshape the law to suit their own personal preferences.
The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. . . . His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.
All men are born free: just not for long.
To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing