American Quotes

I find it scary to sing - scarier than acting actually.

I feel like there is this weird thing where celebrity involvement in political campaigns kind of goes together like peanut butter and chocolate. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad.

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I don't like expectations.

I can fall asleep anywhere.

I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.

I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.

I am definitively qualitative about work.

Good rom-coms have some reflection of the way things are, the sign of the times.

Geeks are finally having their day.

For the most part, there's so much of me in my characters.

For the most part, it is really nice when people come up to me, because I do think that people who are awkward relate to me, and that's really nice. It's generally good.

For the most part, having more money and more fame make your life harder. It just does. I've seen it happen with people. You know, it's so hard to stay normal. It's so hard to stay happy. It's hard to remember why you were doing what you did in the first place.

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.

Caring about what people think of me decreases everyday.

Auditioning is the worst.

As much as my parents are part of Hollywood, I have no recollection of them giving me advice about it.

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

A question I get asked a lot is 'What is it like to play the straight guy all the time?' And I'm totally okay with it.

I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.

I'd been in love before - I was always in love.

I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.

I was the most subtle person in the world.

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.

I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.