I think humor is incredibly positive, I think it is life advancing. There's medical research to show that it improves your antibodies. It's all about sense and perspective.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

When you've only got few days of rehearsal before you're in the studio, it's wonderful to start off with people that you have good, friendly, tolerable relationships to start with, for the simple reason that you don't have to spend 24 hours figuring out how sensitive they are, and can you give them a line reading, or how do you have to give them direction.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.