It is so great to go to a casting director and have them wanting to talk about the show that you are in. It's such a great icebreaker. It just makes the environment so much more relaxed.
Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.
If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.
I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.
You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness. . . has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
I never went after character payments. I'm pretty much terrible at naming characters, so I usually name them after people I know.
I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.
I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
Ask yourself: Does the job touch my heart and feed my soul? You will never be what you were meant to be if you aren't having fun.