I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.

That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.

I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party.

You know you're old when you get a lifetime achievement award. It's a message you've been around too long.

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.