"My brother and I tortured my mother growing up."

"I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area."

"If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is."

"I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?"

"When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation that you could find straight pants again."

"I've always had a thing for Catwoman. Michelle Pfeiffer or Halle Berry in tight leather pants, with the boots - I'm pretty good with either one."

"I don't believe in the power of words."

"How many whales do we really need? I figure five. One for each ocean."

"When I'm at the greatest odds with my body, it's usually because I feel my body's betraying me, whether that's been in the past, struggling with my weight and feeling that I couldn't eat what I wanted to eat, or that I couldn't get my body to do what I wanted it to do."

"I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi."

"The key statistic is still to get to the foul line."

"Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game."

"The real issue is not if a crossing is put in, but when. It would be negligent on the part of Union Pacific and the California Public Utilities Commission to not address the problem."

"Motor cut. Forced landing. Hit cow. Cow died. Scared me."

"As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something."

"I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that... but I know that's just American society."

"I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else."

"I don't know what the future holds, but I have to be confident about it. It's just the way I am."

"I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it."

"I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make a bed, it was a faggot."

"Nobody pours stuffing like you do, my friend."

"There's a reason regular people don't appear on TV: we're boring."

"There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows."

"Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you."