All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. It's kind of self-therapy.
I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.
I really don't work a whole lot as far as touring, but I do stand-up every night of my life, no matter where I am.
When you work too much, you are boring - that is possible. But to have a happy life, if you can do several things in the correct way, that is perfect.
In my everyday life I'm a little bit nervous and not particularly brave. I feel like if I can be completely brave in my work then I'm doing something right.
When I was 18 I worked with the Ringling Brothers circus, taking care of menagerie animals. I used to rather deliberately risk my life with the big cats.
A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.
We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis?
I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?
Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.
After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different, and at times, clashing personalities, Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life.
There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world.
It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.
As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work.
I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.
The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.
I'm in the very fortunate position as a young actor to not have to take the first job that comes along. I'm not motivated by money at this stage in my life, I'm motivated by work.
One of the things I worked very hard on all my life was to be like everyone else. I tried very hard to fit in.
One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.
If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
