“Just do it but make sure your rent is all there so you’re not stressing about that. As long as you have your rent at least you have somewhere to live.”

Know who you are, because that’s how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn’t be comedy if it didn’t.

In today’s world, most people are working side jobs while waiting to do what they really want to do.

My best girlfriends are the girls I went to college with at UCLA.

Always make sure you have your rent. At the end of the month, if you have to eat Ramen for a week because you won’t have your rent money.

Last but not least my family. My brother Tony, I love you. Thank you for beating me up when I was a kid. I always wanted to follow in your footsteps.

I like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.

The dog [in Pavlov’s experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.

The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead.

For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

At least 50 times. I’ve jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I’ve been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.

An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.

The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.