It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

I got my buzz from playing.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

I am a grafter.

When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the ‚Boston Phoenix,‘ and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that’s where I first saw ‚deadpan.‘

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

My job is to play quarterback, and I’m going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say ‚first alarm clock‘ because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television… I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

I’m standing behind a wall of jokes. You don’t know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I’m not on the road. There’s this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don’t know anything about me.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It’s not an intellectual thing. It’s almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

It’s tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I’m wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey’s angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

I can dance to just about anything.