"Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period."

"My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career."

"The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?"

"New Orleans in an amazing town."

"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"

"Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding."

"We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning. We're closer - more closely aligned with the Department of Defense. These things would be positive things if we were to have another attack."

"I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself."