I think you have to try and fail because failure gets you closer to what youre good at.
I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward.
If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.
Perception is created and twisted so quickly.
You can't direct without a good crew.
There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.'
There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.
I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.
When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.
Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.
I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.
When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'
I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.
It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.
I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.
Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.
Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.
