People who laugh together generally don't kill each other..

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile..

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you..

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that..

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across….

My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curi….

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again..

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good wri….

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and ….

Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune no….

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person..

We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has ….

I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I've thought, 'Why don't I just act on that impulse?' But then, I've never hit anybody in anger.….

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are..

When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as….

I'm very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal ….

It's always better to be wise than to be smart..

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first vi….

Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah. Don't e….

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat….

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money..