Quotes About Boundaries

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.

There is an elementary level of trust that is necessary for community. You have to be able to trust that your neighbors aren't going to look into your mailbox.

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

You can change friends but not neighbours.

Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.

There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.

In network TV, you have to present the box before you can step outside it.

Never say never, but I won't kiss just for the heck of it.

Never say never, I find I get claustrophobic in a relationship.

Being with a bunch of people who never take a day off means that you're not taking a day off.

I never take anything personally when it doesn't concern me.

When I'm home, I never take work calls. If I'm at work, I work; if I'm home that's it, I'm home.

There is some limit to finding, always, new things. It's rather impossible.

It's weird, in New York City, we consider anything above Manhattan 'upstate.'

I will tell my best friends who I'm attracted to, but I'm not going to talk about it in a newspaper... It has nothing to do with my work.

I don't know what fun newspapers and magazines derive from interfering in people's private lives.

I think of myself as living so much outside borders or old categories that I choose as my leaders U2, the Dalai Lama, Vaclav Havel, Sigur Ros, Desmond Tutu, Barack Obama, and the girl next door. By definition, in short, my leaders are the ones who think in terms larger, and more intimate, than any country.

I used to say that I wanted someone cute and nice, an actor too, so he'd get it. But now I think it would be good for me to date someone who's not in the business.

The nice girl meets a guy and acts like she joined a cult. In the beginning, a guy might ask her what she likes. The nice girl makes the mistake of shrugging her shoulders and saying: 'I like anything you like.'

I like nice people, I don't like nasty people, but I like somebody that's not a pushover.

It's much nicer to be known as Mr. Nice Guy than Mr. Nasty Guy. But you've got to have lines - and when you hit the line, that's the end of the story, nice guy or not.

I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.

Nick hasn't seen me naked - I'm not a person who's constantly flinging my clothes aside and strutting about.

I'll never forget where I came from or who my friends are. But I know there is a time and a place to be with them. That's not being with 20 or 30 people in a nightclub or walking around the streets.