William Shakespeare Quotes

When you go in to do a screen test, you negotiate your contract and sign all your paperwork before you even get on a plane.

I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.

I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing 'Cum Laude.' So many of the physical details were included, like the loop where people jogged. The story of the chapel is also borrowed from Colby... but the students and cast of characters are fictional.

When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.

I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.

George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

They're not posing as being Jesus Christ all the time.

There is a new way with very very tiny fiber optics, which give an enormous high resolution. There are many many thousand fibers, very very close together with a very small diameter.

Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Well, Rhoda was, I think, the last actress that we saw. There had been so many wonderful actresses who were close, really close. But there was no magical epiphany.

Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution.

We are a small nation, but strong.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.