1. “Hope walks through the fire and faith leaps over it.”
2. “My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.”
3. “That peace that we’re after lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself.”
4. “Life doesn’t happen to you, it happens for you.”
5. “Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself—until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself.”
6. “So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it.”
7. “If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?”
8. “When you are a kid, you need to have something to do. This will keep you off the streets.”
9. “I think everybody should get rich and famous, and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.”
10. “You will only ever have two choices—love or fear. Choose love, and don’t ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.”
11. “Don’t worry if you miss your cue, because there’s always doors opening. They keep opening.”
12. “As far as I’m concerned, everything bad that happens in the world stems from the same place—they’re people who don’t feel important.”
13. “If I’m not back in 5 minutes, just wait longer.”
14. “Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much!”
15. “Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.”
16. “The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.”
17. “Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar.”
18. “The truth will set you free.”
19. “Movies find me, and I kind of just allow them to find me.”
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20. “It’s our intention. Our intention is everything. Nothing happens on this planet without it. Not one single thing has ever been accomplished without intention.”
21. “As far as I can tell, it’s just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.”
22. “Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form.”
23. “You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world.”
24. “I want to be a positive force in the world. I would like to make people happy.”
25. “The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.”
26. “People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.”
27. “When I started out, I’d drive a hundred miles to do my act for free.”
28. “I’ve often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it’s not where you’ll find your sense of completion.”
29. “I tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying, but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.”
30. “Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.”
31. “One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world.”
32. “You know the trouble with real life? There’s no danger music.”
33. “My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex but I forgave him.”
34. “I just wanna hang out. No big deal!”
35. “Don’t do too many things that make you feel like you deserve to lose because we do program our own computers. I believe there is a plus and a minus column and if you end up on the minus column, your own conscience will make you lose.”
36. “I have always been introspective. Since I was a little kid, since I could remember, I was sitting in a closet trying to write out the meaning of the universe. That’s been my whole life.”
37. “I don’t feel any pressure to be funny at all. I’m funny because I want to be funny. I could sit here and be serious for an hour and you would go away and make me much funnier than I am.”
38. “My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.”
39. “I don’t think I’m ever going to have the kind of life or schedule that I can really have a steady way of doing things.”
40. “Energy is what I believe all of us are. We’re just consciously aware of dancing for itself for no other reason but to stay amused.”
41. “Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world.”
42. “50 years—here’s a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren’t doing what you love, then what’s the point?”
43. “It’s better to fail at what you love than fail at what you don’t.”
44. “There’s been a thoughtfulness in everything I do. Even the stupidest things I do have some kind of point.”
45. “I don’t think you can know God unless you’re passionate about Him so you’re either screaming at Him, enraptured with the idea of being around Him, or feeling Him in your life.”
46. “I’m not always looking for a laugh. I’m not the guy who sits in and listens to conversations and wants to jump in with something hilarious every two seconds. I actually do listen to people.”
47. “Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth.”
48. “I don’t hate you for loving you. I just hate my heart for choosing someone like you.”
49. “I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter.”
50. “I don’t believe in this fairy tale of staying together forever. Ten years with somebody is enough.”
51. “My spiritual journey has been a good kind of thing I’ve been on. I guess some people would say I’m obsessed with it, but in a really good way. It’s just enjoyable. I don’t really have crazy obsessions about things.”
52. “My father used to brag that I wasn’t a ham, I was the whole pig.”
53. “I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humor.”
54. “I hate Christmas. I do think it is odd that I have wound up playing these two iconic Christmas haters. It is the same story, in a way. Scrooge is the original Grinch. I think I am perfectly suited, because I have had some dark Christmases.”
55. “When someone you love dies, you don’t lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming.”
56. “One man’s toxic waste is another man’s potpourri.”
57. “A lot of good love can happen in ten years.”
58. “Don’t you just hate it when you are in bed with three beautiful women, and the least attractive one whispers, ‘Save it for me!’”
59. “Be grateful. Find something to be grateful for.”
60. “I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich.”
61. “I have no limits! I cannot be contained because I’m the container.”
62. “To find real peace, you have to let the armor go.”
63. “Our eyes are not viewers, they’re also projectors that are running a second story over the picture that we see in front of us all the time. Fear is writing that script, and the working title is, ‘I’ll never be enough.’”
64. “Isn’t it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?”
65. “It’s always good, I think, in general, to have different energies on screen—like, it’s nice to have different characters go at different speeds, just like different people work at different speeds.”
66. “I would do anything to be anywhere in the vicinity of .”
67. “But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself.”
68. “If you’ve got a talent, protect it.”
69. “The era of ‘yes’ has begun.”
70. “My career has been in a weird, kind of like, low-flying under the radar-kind of place. I never made it on Saturday Night Live where all my friends did.”
71. “Free cable is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”
72. “I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.”
73. “Most of the time, I live with my pain. I have pain, but I won’t show it around. I think that’s the nobility of the character.”
74. “There’s something noble in not spewing on people all the time about your problems. I’m the light guy, so I identified.”
75. “You might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”
76. “Well, this is just a fist. But when I start throwing it around, I can leave one hell of a mess.”
77. “Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!”
78. “You can be zany and funny or you can do something that really has some depth to it and serious, so there’s many different colors to paint with. I would hate to get trapped in one little thing. I always feel like funny is an appendage, but it is not my whole body.”
79. “I used to be a guy who was experiencing the Universe, but now I feel like the Universe experiencing a guy.”
80. “You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all it will ever be is what’s happening here.”
81. “I like challenges and I don’t believe in failure. I don’t believe in . I believe suffering, failure—all those concepts—are things that are absolutely necessary to make us the best people that we can be, the best at whatever we want to do.”
82. “Risk being seen in all of your glory.”
83. “Those times in life when you’re terrified are the mastery times.”
84. “If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.”
85. “I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.”
86. “Decisions we make in this moment are based on either love or fear.”
87. “That’s the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they’d be like, ‘Yeah, big deal. I’d eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you’re pulling down.’”
88. “It’s time to P-A-R-T. Why? Because I gotta!”
89. “Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience.”
90. “I like to enjoy life, I like to engage in life, so I would say I’m a yes man.”
91. “Psychologically, it’s what I love to be—tearing apart a person from the inside out.”
92. “I’m always trying to complicate things. For some reason I’ll go, ‘Well, maybe I can get that in,’ and stuff like that. I always make it really hard for myself.”
93. “I’m not in a recession. I’m doing very, very well. I’m doing incredibly well. I just want to be honest. I really am kicking ass.”
94. “Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It’s the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.”
95. “I hope I’ll never be drunk with my own power.”
96. “The combination of what’s written and just being in the moment is always the best way. You gotta start out with something solid and then you play.”
97. “I feel that we’re all lighthouses, and my job is to shine my light as brightly as I can to the darkness.”
98. “I’m not a Bible thumper. I’m not any of that stuff, but I do believe that the force is with us.”
99. “I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes.”
100. “You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness—a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities.”
101. “Ultimately, we’re not the avatars we create. We’re not the pictures on the film stock. We are the light that shines through it. All else is just smoke and mirrors. Distracting, but not truly compelling.”
102. “There is a huge difference between a dog that is going to eat you in your mind and an actual dog that’s going to eat you.”
103. “All there will ever be is what’s happening here.”
104. “For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.”
105. “The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm.”
106. “Riddle me this, riddle me that. Who’s afraid of the big black bat?”
107. “I feel like I’ve lived the dream for sure. I’m the luckiest guy in the world and I will never forget that. I always feel like I’m proof of positive thought and manifestation, and that faith is more important than talent. But if you have both you’re really doing something.”
108. “Madness is never that far away. It’s as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.”
109. “It’s always fun to do something that you know ultimately is not about the money, and it’s certainly not the fame because it’s a pain in the ass, but it’s really the person in the seat you think about when you sit in the rooms and write, and you do all the things you have to do.”
110. “Always turn your wheel in the direction of the skid.”
111. “Just because I rock doesn’t mean I am made of stone.”
112. “What’s yours? How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That’s all you have to figure out.”
113. “I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.”
114. “I enjoy my life. The fame part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when it’s not so great to be special and known by everybody—you know, when you’re wearing the wrong thing, or just in a vulnerable place. But I’m good with my life now.”
115. “Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though.”
116. “Every character is a baby. You can’t choose between them. If you can, you didn’t do your job. You have to fall in love with every character.”
117. “The inner child runs rampant. They’re just smaller, that’s all.”
118. “The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love. It becomes incredibly painful.”
119. “I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.”
120. “I don’t believe in bad people. I believe that people, somewhere inside, have the potential to realize themselves.”
121. “My dad was like a stage mother; he always pushed me to do what I wanted.”
122. “What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good. and if I do try to make them feel bad, it’s for a reason. There’s something I am trying to say.”
123. “I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I just spent hours making faces at myself, having a good time.”
124. “The dating process is not normal for me.”
125. “The wonderful thing about the digital process is that I can be cast in films that I would never be cast in. If I have it in my soul to play the character it doesn’t matter what my face looks like, or my age. It’s really liberating.”
126. “Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.”
127. “A better you means a better universe.”
128. “I’ve always believed that you can funnel good things toward yourself by thinking positively.”