Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.

My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.

Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains." It's all about yin and yang. And that's not something you order off column A at your local Chinese restaurant.

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.

My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives.