Our hubris needs to be downsized, thinking that profiteering on Earth, on whatever level - environmentally, economically, culturally - is unlimited and everybody should get as much as he wants or she wants. Humans need to be shrunk again to their actual size.

I grew up a happy kid in Toronto. I've never suffered. I've never even had a real job! But I understand sadness and striving, and those two things tie into all the roles that I've played.

Hasn't everyone written a leave letter while at school? Or sent a text message? There is a writer in all of us.

Comedy always benefits from different points of view and even tension. It can never be satisfied.

I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

Fatherhood made everything more straightforward. I was relieved that no longer did I have to agonise over what meaning I had in my life.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

Not everything can be solved quickly.

Bullying has existed forever. Everyone has dealt with it, and teenagers, regardless of where they are, are dealing with the same stuff growing up.

I want to do all the pay-per-views and wrestle everyone.

I've been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise.

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.

The projects I have done on television, they're sitcoms, situational comedies. The problem is, maybe because they go on every day, Monday through Friday, one-hour format, maybe that's why they're labeled as a telenovela. But technically speaking, they're sitcoms because they're situational comedies.

Every player wants to play at the highest level.

I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

I wish I had millions in the bank; I'd never go broke. Let's get that belt and get millions in the bank.

Whatever it is that you are doing as an actor, if it frightens you, if you're scared of it, you need to do it.

I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.

I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend!