As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.

I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.

I stay away from the arts... writing songs, being creative - those are downloads from God. You can't do data analytics on art.

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it.

There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.