If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.