Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don’t ignore that critic, but don’t give it more attention than it deserves.
I take my coffee the same way I take my women: Strong, black, and proud.
The global business climate is likewhatever, dude.
I don’t really read children’s books or deal with children’s books, so I don’t have any relationship with them other than my own.
My absolute favorite growing up was Super Friends. The assemblage of so many mighty heroes in one place was, to me, mind-blowing. It was Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and then sometimes Hawkman and some other, lesser heroes.
Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.
I feel no obligation to teach my readers anything, to impart any sort of wisdom, to teach any sort of lesson, to instill any sort of morality. All I’m trying to do is make them and their parents laugh.
I don’t watch that much comedy. I think it’s professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.
The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that’s so much work doing what they do, and it’s terrible for them.
My goal is to work. That’s the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.
Whatever I write I publish. Because that’s where the money is.
My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob. And proud of it.
I’m very introverted, so it requires a huge effort for me to put on a smile and extend a hand and accept compliments. I would much rather be insulted than complimented any day.
I used to need the character but as I’ve gotten older I need it less and less – I prefer to play some version of myself. To approach any acting job as me just being me.
Any time I am involved in something from conception to execution, that’s obviously a lot more personal, and I’m going to be more invested in it than something where I just show up for a couple days, shoot, and leave.
I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps to provide perspective.
I probably should be thinking of better ideas on how to promote myself, but I don’t really spend a lot of time doing it. I really don’t know how to promote effectively.
Hosting a game show is so bizarre and uniquely its own thing. Anytime I’m hosting something, I try to bring as much of myself to it as I can, but it’s always going to be incomplete.
I think people just love to win.
That’s been my fear all along. That I’m not enough, and I still don’t trust at all that I am.