“When I was a kid I used to hate getting picked for team sports. It would be the fit and sporty guys over there.”

This is not true. Complex human problems typically require complex solutions with many different components.

What am I supposed to do if I go bald? Get a wig? Fat, goofy, gay, wig.

A true friend never asks of you what they know you would never ask of them.

Civilians’ is a term I love. It’s what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren’t on TV.

I might as well get a piano and start an Elton John tribute act!

And me and the fat kids over here. Those kids were fat! One girl had to be cut out a hula hoop.

I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I’d gone to Africa I would have got poached.

All change requires effort and sacrifice. Sometimes action plans fail because they are based on the idea that there is a ‘magic bullet’ which on its own can solve our problems.

Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.

I’m not going to normally get hired to play those emotional things, and I’m capable of it. I was raised by a single mother in Iowa – I’m just trapped in a big, dumb body.

When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.

You get a lot of respect for ‘Game of Thrones,’ and it was a lot of fun to play, but it didn’t help my career a lot because Khal Drago doesn’t even speak English.

I get up at 5 A.M., and I train hard. I’ve got two young children, so I have to get up early. But I like it.

I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I`m focusing on are my own policy proposals.