If your shirt isn’t tucked into your pants, then your pants are tucked into your shirt.
And what we’ve lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.
If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.
We realized that the world of popular culture had been creating the perfect candidate for many years: the female champion of the universe.
Marijuana is quite possibly the finest of intoxicants. It has been scientifically proven, for decades, to be much less harmful to the body than alcohol when used on a regular basis.
Follow your gut, make a choice, and throw yourself into it. If you make a mistake, then you have merely afforded yourself a valuable lesson.
I’m enjoying the opportunity that Parks And Recreation affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don’t teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He’s a grown man, fishing’s not that hard.
How lucky my life is that I have two arms, and two legs, and ten fingers with which to make things out of wood.
Of course smartphones are brilliant inventions, but the nefarious thing about Twitter and other social media is that it starts to fill all the gaps in your day. I quickly become an addict.
Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity.
If you want to be happy in life, consider yourself a student. Every day of your life, think: how can I improve?
My wife, the actress Megan Mullally, was an English major at Northwestern University and loves fiction. Like so many things in my life, she curates things for me. For example, I have the daunting prospect of Donna Tartt’s “The Goldfinch” waiting for me when I get through my current reading pile.
It’s taken me a lot of years to peel away my own layers.
Always maintain the attitude of a student. If you think you’ve done learning, bitterness sets in, but if you have more to achieve every day, in any arena, that makes each morning’s awakening full of potential and cheery portent.
I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic.
Just stand up for your principals and be loyal to your friends and family.
I don’t put a great deal of stock in art trophies.
We have such an embarrassment of riches when it comes to choice. Do you want to hike in the Alps? There are 300 pairs of shoes you can order within the next 10 minutes. You have your choice of everything.
Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.