“The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes. It’s not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.”

Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy and the fundamental right upon which all our civil liberties rest.

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we’ve done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago.

Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

Some people don’t get it when I’m being sarcastic.

I don’t see why I can’t have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It’s crazy.

I used to think, ‘How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?

I like girls who are intelligent, somewhat funny, and pretty with a nice personality.

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery.

If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn’t mean I’m gay.

Brothers don’t necessarily have to say anything to each other – they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.

97% of the people who quit too soon are employed by the 3% who never gave up.

There’s some of Romeo’s romance in me. I romanticise a lot of things in my mind.

For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.

When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.

I’m a standup comedian who gets to act. I’m never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through periods where I’m doing a lot of acting work, I still do standup.

It’s not about women acting like man, it’s about women acting like woman and being sucsessful

It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.

In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.

One of the great tools we use in acting is the idea of immediacy, that the audience gets to see you witness something apparently for the first time, so you create a lot of tools to kind of trick yourself into making it appear something is happening for the first time.

In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on government, they were in some sense the government.

Not that they were that anxious to see Ronnie as President; they were afraid if he didn’t get elected, he’d go back to acting.

I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn’t want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.