I think whatever you do, if you are going to do well or even if you don't do it well, you have to have a passion for it, and I am passionate about it. I love it. I respect it and it gets me. I get off on acting.

Anything truly worthwhile does not come easy. If it did, it would not be all that worthwhile.

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

I have never lost a total passion for my work.

It can be a simple sentence that makes one single point and you build for that. You zero in on one moment that gets that character, you go for it, that's it, man, and if you fail the whole thing is down the drain, but if you make it you hit the moon.

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.