I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.
Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
I haven't had the whole 'famous' thing happen to me yet, and I hope I never will. I like to sneak away in the corners and hide a lot.
The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.
The time to save for the future is now. Thanks to compounding interest, the earlier you start putting money away for the future, the more you will save.
I don't know about you, but there is nothing that's scarier than young people who have no future. If you take away someone's future, they have nothing to lose.
Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?
The funny thing about making this record and being away from the girls and on my own in LA is that it allowed me to reflect on how much we've accomplished.
You really have no idea whether or not what you're writing is funny. In stand-up and sketch comedy, you know right away and you can make your changes accordingly.
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
I'm a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I'm one of those girls who don't give the mic away. It's a problem. I'm a closeted pop star.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.
Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.
After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.
With my son, I work very hard to keep him away from the press and media and I want an opportunity for him to lead as normal a life as possible.
All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you can't be that obnoxious and get away with it.
When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as it is, and some of it was unpleasant. I gradually moved away from that.
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
I don't want at the end of my life to look back at just a bunch of fictional movies I was involved in that kept taking me away from the real world.
I moved out to New Zealand to live as I thought the warmth and peace and quiet would help me. I went away and changed my whole life routine.
