“The one thing for sure is, I don’t ever want to waste a movie. I don’t ever want to waste effort.”

It’s just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.

If all else fails, you can always be a pro.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

Celebrities and ‘famous’ people are just regular folks. I know, it’s a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

White-collar crime has been marketed – billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.

There’s nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.

Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.

The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that’s what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.

The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

Every time a congressman or pundit says its ‘class warfare’ to increase taxes on the wealthy, it’s a massive lie.

There’s such an aggressively a political movement in the US that anything that smells of being political – even the term “political” is so ridiculous, when you think about it.

Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness

Why in times of need do we call on that one person? Why do we confide in that one person.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.

I try to preserve the dynamics of the street, and my way of using the camera tries to approximate as much as possible the way we see: focusing on details, opening up to wider angles, and composing all these very short, fragmented impressions into a larger mental picture.

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.

We are all one – and if we don’t know it, we will learn it the hard way.