"Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love."

“The shows need youth. All of our comics are getting too famous to do the show regularly. The people who are regulars five years ago, a lot of them have moved on and can't do the show anymore. We can't really get Jim Gaffigan anymore, we can't get Nick Swardson anymore.”

Source : Source: www.dead-frog.com

“I never really got any backlash from coming out. Across the board all I really got was kids who were grateful, which is so touching and rewarding for me. So grateful that I came out, that I could serve as someone in their world that was gay and helped them feel comfortable about being gay themselves.”

“No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story.”

“This constitution we designate by the word genotype. The word is entirely independent of any hypothesis; it is fact, not hypothesis that different zygotes arising by fertilisation can thereby have different qualities, that, even under quite similar conditions of life, phenotypically diverse individuals can develop.”

“Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.”

Source : "'How Did I Survive My Childhood?'". Interview with Benjamin Secher, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 16, 2005.

“The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good person, all of which must be drawn from within.”

Source : Edwin J. Delattre (2011). “Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing”, p.7, AEI Press

“You don't want to be hard to look at. Plain very good, hard to look at bad. The plain shall inherit the earth; time is our friend.”

“Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.”