If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.
If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn't you also be able to inhabit a character?
I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.
Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.
Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.
I've always been someone that sets achievable short-term goals. I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible. So I've just always been someone that's sort of reassessed where I'm at, and set goals that are realistic. And luckily, I've had plenty of chances to recalibrate and adjust, and good fortune's come my way.
I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.
As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.
I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.
Animals are just pure, uncomplicated entities of creation from God. They live like the Maasai do in Kenya-for each day is forever to them and the "Now" is what they live in. You can get aggravated with your pets and yell at them, but in a matter of minutes they are licking your hand again in love.
The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.