As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.
People may like a person’s thought for its touching words, but they like him truly for his own deeds touching their heart.
I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.
I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.
I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
People say to me, 'Do you know who you look like?' And I say, 'I'm really tired of looking like that guy.'
I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes. I like that.
Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.
I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.
I don't use any of the terminology like 'left wing' and 'right wing.' I use language like 'godly' and 'holiness.'
When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.
I moved to L.A. and really didn't dig living there until I found places like Koreatown and Little Tokyo. I really like hanging out in the grocery stores and restaurants.
I don't like the new president who hunts muslim extremists, I like the old president who is a muslim extremist.
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.
When I say to a parent, 'read to a child,' I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.
I feel like I'm sleeping when I'm awake, and really living when I'm asleep.
You act like you're okay, Like everything is just fine. But you can't hide a frown, And smile at the same time.
Writing a book is like sliding down a rainbow! Marketing it is like trudging through a field of chewed bubblegum on a hot, sticky day.
I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.
