Children teach you that you can still be humbled by life, that you learn something new all the time. That's the secret to life, really: never stop learning. It's the secret to career. I'm still working because I learn something new all the time. It's the secret to relationships. Never think you've got it all.

When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

I'm just naturally gravitating towards different things. As you mature, different subject matters. And as you're older, you can't play as many parts, or you shouldn't be playing the parts that you used to play. But also there's the opportunity to play parts that you couldn't have.

I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write from scratch. I wish I had that ability.

There's nothing like a nice piece of hickory.

Nobody, I mean nobody, puts ketchup on a hot dog.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.