"My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me."

"I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something."

"My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened."

"So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that."

"It is a unyielding truth that vision without execution is fantasy; execution without vision is chaos."

"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue."

"A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek."

"It is a subtle truth that let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky."