Success should always be just beyond your grasp.
The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn’t need more of that from me.
These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up – all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn’t understand are scoffing at them.
Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody’s thinking.
When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.
My mother was an exuberant, silly lady.
My dad died of a stroke.
I didn’t want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn’t know what else to do.
I don’t think of myself as being tied.
I envy the people who say, ‘oh, well, I’ve got my name in the golden book and I’m going to be entered into the pearly gates.’
I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.
I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.
I have been accused of never saying no.
What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.
I’ve been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.
When I’m interviewing somebody I don’t work from prepared questions.
When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.
Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn’t win.
My kids say if there’s any family dinner that doesn’t result in somebody crying, it’s not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It’s like a family tradition.