“The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, ‘Is that a $20 million take?’ That kind of thing, and being self-critical.”

Energy is what I believe all of us are. We’re just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no other reason but to stay amused.

I don’t make it in regular channels, and that’s okay for me.

Comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

Beware of the unloved, because they will eventually hurt themselves or others.

I have no limits. I cannot be contained because I am the container.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

My report card always said, ‘Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students’.

I don’t remember yesterday. I pretty much live in the moment.

If I’m not back in 5 minutes, just wait longer.

I am heaven.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

Criticism precedes admiration and – like it or not – goes hand in hand with success. Keep pouring on the success, and sooner or later, the very same people who were putting you down will be admiring you for what you have done.

The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.

Their compliments should not define you and nor should their criticism break you.

I don’t really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn’t really worry me even if it’s like out of place. At least it’s relevant.

The ambitious are criticized by those that have given up.

Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!