"I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical."

"I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the words and make them meet for lunch."

"My 11-year-old thinks I'm cool because he watches things I've made on YouTube."

"I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous."

"Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That's what we want to do."

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

"I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security."

"When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps."