"I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk."

“You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.”

“You don't know what people are really like until they're under a lot of stress.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.”

“Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.”

“Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest.”

Source : "Don Novello's a man of many words, whether he's Father Guido Sarducci, scribbler Lazlo Toth, or even a political candidate" by Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. September 18, 2003.

“The pressure to be pretty? I set, you know, boundaries and goals for myself. I try not to compare myself to anyone else because I will never be anyone else except myself. So I try and stay true to me, and hopefully the right projects will come my way.”

“Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.”

“I've always been pretty much a quiet person. When I was little, I got picked on a lot. After I went through all that, I pretty much kept to myself.”

Source : "What A Great Catch 49ers Struck Gold By Picking Owens" by Brian Murphy, The Press Democrat, p. C1, January 8, 1999.