Quotes from John Ross Bowie

We just can't scare our kids by living in fear.

It's really hard to figure out what they need to know. And that's parenting, in general. It's hard to figure out what would benefit your kids and what would just make them needlessly frightened.

I came out of UCB and, before that, punk rock, and the whole deal was you do it yourself. Get up and rent the space, get up and press your own records, get up and silkscreen your own tees, get it done yourself. That sort of self-reliance will only serve me. Any time I lose sight of that, my career suffers.

I think that the idea of wanting to fight for your kids, but also knowing that your wife is probably better at it, is something that rings very true for me.

I don't really have guilty pleasures - I like what I like. But I've seen a lot - a lot - of 'Taxicab Confessions.'

Commercials led to TV, and TV led to movies here and there.

The days are long. I'm not complaining, but it's a lot of work doing a single-camera comedy.

There's a certain steely resolve when you decide to live in a city and decide to raise children in the city. And if you're doing it properly, you have sort of a heightened awareness anyway.

Living in a city is stressful absent terrorism.

I think punk rock needs an 'Amadeus.'

Some people will go for the quick joke and not pay attention to the consequences.

I guess that's the big challenge of any art: Do you want to be something for everyone or everything for someone?

There are some people who were born with good timing, and I think my comic timing is pretty solid.

'Speechless' is first and foremost a show about a family that doesn't have a ton of money, but they move into a really crappy house in a really nice neighborhood so their kids can go to a nice school.

Tragedy is the oldest form of theatre.

My wife has a small part in 'Spy,' and that movie killed me repeatedly.

Humor is a way to deal with stresses. It is a way to cope.

I have friends who have children with various disabilities, and I was able to talk to them about just sort of the struggle and the extra effort that has to be put into very commonplace things.

The bottom line is we go to theatre to vicariously spend time with really intense characters.