I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

I don't watch television.

A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.

NOTHING happens by coincidence.

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers but won't tell.

The faces he woke up with in the worlds hotels were like God's own hood ornaments. Women's sleeping faces, identical and alone, naked, aimed straight out to the void.

Rain woke him, a slow drizzle, his feet tangled in coils of discarded fiberoptics. The arcade's sea of sound washed over him, receded, returned. Rolling over, he sat up and held his head.

She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...

It's awfully easy to rush into a profession you don't really like, and awfully hard to get out of it.

I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up.

It's tough for me to get rid of clothes. I grew up in a household with a limited budget and we really had to make our nice clothes last, and so now I'll get free pairs of shoes and this, that and the other and I'll be like, 'Oh great!'; even though it stresses me out that I don't have enough room to put them, I can't throw them away.

I don't really have aspirations to be Tom Hanks.

When you look at someone like Sacha Baron Cohen, you have to really respect the boundaries he is pushing as Bruno or Borat.

Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.

I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are she's going to end up looking like me.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

All I really want to do is just keep acting, and some of it will stink, and some of it will be really good, and maybe when I'm 85 and presenting an Oscar like Bette Davis did, I can look back and say, 'It was okay, I did all right.'

I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.

To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.

The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.

When I was younger, I used to visualise myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that.

Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.