“I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.”

I haven’t seen this many men dressed in women’s clothing since my bachelor party.

Violence – look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who’s kidding who?

I never think there’s any competition between films. I root for everybody’s films. I especially have a fond place in my heart for graphic novels and comics.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

I think that the “what if” game is what you guys get to do. I don’t have to do that. I hate the “what if” game. I’m such a believer in everything happening the way it’s supposed to happen.

I would say, ‘I’m alone, but I’m not lonely.’ But I was just kidding myself.

No one predicts the future. No one tries to.

If I had a choice, I would do comedy all the time. It’s just the most challenging thing. To make someone laugh is the most challenging thing, and the most rewarding thing, in entertainment.

If you think anyone goes out and commits crimes because of some daffy film they’ve seen, then I question your judgment.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It’s a weird combination of elements.

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it’s time to stop singing.

My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They’re a captive audience.

Cinema has no boundaries, we all belong to the same artistic community.

I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.

I never think about the downs. Well, only when I get asked during interviews.

Now I know what a TV dinner feels like.

The truth is always the strongest argument.

Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.

The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don’t argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.

At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.

No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with God.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.