“Comedy is acting out optimism.”

When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.

Don’t associate yourself with toxic people. It’s better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.

I had sex with a prostitute when I was 21, I was so bad, she gave me a refund.

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, ‘Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.’

There are no rules. Just follow your heart.

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.

If we’re going to fight a disease, let’s fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.

Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary.

If women ran the world, we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Make your life spectacular, I know I did.

What’s right is what’s left if you do everything else wrong.

I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.

Don’t mess with me, man, I’m a lawyer!

Reality: What a concept!

At 15 I had moved out of my parents’ place, and my options were looking pretty narrow. But I had this acting thing and I just wanted to be able to keep going because it was really good. That was all I wanted.

I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.

I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.

There’s so much crap talked about acting.

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

The crisis in Europe has affected the US economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence and pressuring US financial markets and institutions.

I first got into acting when I was about 12. I started doing speech and drama lessons. All my friends were doing it at the time and my dad encouraged it. He encouraged any extracurricular activity.

Acting is different all the time. When you’re on set, different films, or just even in between, it’s never the same. I think that’s one of the things I love about it.