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When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true.

I want to get my own show because 'Today' will eventually get tired of me, or the audience will get tired of me.

If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.

If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.

We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.

I truly believe that I can be president of the US if I really want to.

Hurry up and write your number down before I don't want it no more.

I want to represent possibilities.

I am inspired beyond my ability to articulate... and now I know what and who I want to be... a soldier for peace.

There is a definite difference between live shows and the recordings. The recordings are for all time, hopefully, so you do want to bring across layers of subtlety. But the live show is this primal experience that everybody's having at the same time, that the recording can at best try to imitate or duplicate.

That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we don’t want to talk about ourselves.

If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.

Don't invite me if you don't want me.

Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.

We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it

Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.

I never want someone to come out of one of my films and say, "Damn. I wasted an hour and a half of my life." I'm trying to avoid that.

Making money is awesome and fun as hell, but they're saying, "Well, you're offered a whole lot of money to do this," and it's like, well, I do want the money, but I don't really do that - like headline a big festival or something like that. I could go there and do that, but it isn't really what I do. It feels weird to me.

There are a limited number of promoters out there who care about creating music. You rarely meet a promoter who's like, "I want to be responsible for the best shows, I want to make sure that these are the best shows these audiences have ever seen."

In the movies I've done for Sony, they've never given me quadrant specific notes ever. They say "Keep making it. Just make the movie you want to do." Especially in a comedy because comedy is so tone specific.

You go through your career and you find people and cast who you love and you go through and keep them and you never want to let them go because you have a great repertory with them.

I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop.

I want to go out there and do the best work I can.

If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It's obviously the best way to work.

You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.