I Try To Measure The Amount Of

No One Will Laugh At How Great Things Are For Somebody.

I Learned Over The Years That It's Easy To Appear Smart Referencing Things That People Don't Know.

Somebody Once Told Me That If You Laugh At A George Bush Joke, Or You Send An Email Cartoon To Your Friends That Makes Bush Look Like A Fool, You Feel Like You've Done Something Significant. But Really, What Have You Actually Done? Just Expressing Contempt For Your Leaders Doesn't Really Accomplish Anything.

We Tell Our Kids That Policemen Are Good And God Protects Us And Our Country Is Noble, And At A Certain Point - And For Some It Comes Quite Early, Five Or Six Years Old - We Start To Realize That It's All A Facade.

As An Actor, You're Completely At The Mercy Of Other People. You Basically Go Begging For The Opportunity To Work. As A Writer, At Least Nobody Can Tell Me What To Do. I Can Write What I Want. I Might Not Sell It, But At Least I'm In Control.