Quotes

I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.

I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.

Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.

My dad would have me watch the shows that he liked. I watched 'I Love Lucy.' I watched 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.' I watched 'M*A*S*H' and 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Bob Newhart' and 'Taxi' and 'Cheers.'

I used to write sketches. I loved David Letterman in the '80s. I used to write Top 10 lists for him, and I faxed them in anonymously. I'm sure they threw them away.

It's a huge high to be able to earn a nice living doing the thing I love most - making comedy.

What I loved about TV when I was a kid was that no matter where you came from or who you were - black, white, rich or poor - you knew the same shows. It was a common thing in our culture.

Many of the things that we take for granted around the table, like cashing a check or just paying a bill or sending money to somebody you love, is very time consuming.

My parents are the biggest role models in my life, and if I find a woman that I can have a love like they have for one another, I'd be the luckiest man in the world.

I wanted said yes to 'The Bachelor' for the chance of finding love and to find someone I could spend the rest of my life with.

Who doesn't love Captain Kirk?

I can strongly say with conviction that as far as being on a TV show that documents my love life of any kind, I'm done with.

I would do anything for love.

I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.

If we went by the world's definition of who I'm supposed to be because I look weird... 'Well, surely, this guy can't have a productive life, surely, he doesn't have a sense of humor. Surely, he can't love life.' We stereotype people in this world. And so... if the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.

Hope is in the name of God, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hope is when you compare your suffering to the infinite, immeasurable love and grace of God.

Do you know why I love God? Because Heaven is real. And one day, when we get to Heaven, we are going to have arms and legs. And we are going to run, and we are going play, and we are going to race.

Faith is walking by faith, not by what you feel. You are not always going to feel that Jesus loves you or that God is good, but you know He is. It is the up and down of the journey.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

It sounds cheesy, but if you are having fun, people will love your company, you will be more successful, and more ideas will come your way.

It's very difficult to get any footage of yourself doing what you love unless you have a friend who's a photographer or videographer and wants to document you. That was really the idea and the goal from the beginning: to help people get a good photo, and then it was to help people get a good video.