Quotes About Contrast

Here in L.A., there are a lot of dead spots, and you have to drive to find energy, but all of India is so energetic.

I think what often happens when people leave their spouse for someone else is they tend to go for the opposite of what they already have.

I walk out my front door in New York and I'm out on the street and there are people everywhere. L.A. is so much more spread out, so it's really easy in L.A. to have a little more isolation and to just not see as many people.

My favorite role ever was Alien in 'Spring Breakers'.

I literally went straight to New York City from Iraq, which was bizarre and complicated. I was walking down Madison Avenue, and it was spring, and people were smartly dressed, and it was so strange because there was no sense that we were at war. It was something to grapple with.

I love the intimate, single spotlight, troubadour-y quiet, delicate moments. But I also love Springsteen and screaming and shouting.

When you get to Spurs you know the difference between the lesser clubs and the big boys. It's a different experience.

I don't live like liberals in a 5,000 square foot mansion.

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

How comedic are squirrels? We don't have squirrels in Australia. The first time I saw a squirrel was at a meeting at Disney.

I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.

The idea of standing five feet away from Norah Jones and listening to her sing Neil Young's 'Down By The River' was just phenomenal. I compare that to what my kids know of at a concert, which is sitting in a stadium and watching a huge screen.

There's an amazing intimate feeling in a small club but an insane rush playing a stadium or festival.

To be frank, you can't compare the atmosphere and the way people behaved in the Olympic Stadium with the game I watched the day after, the Community Shield.

I like doing very small, intimate things in the morning and then, in the afternoon, to be working on something in a big stadium.

After playing in England, going to a place where you have 40, 50 people at the stadium was no fun.

People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening; the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal.

I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light.

You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand.

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.

It's still a soft R, but when I watch other people's standup, I'm dumbfounded that people call me dirty. That's only because I did family television.

One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.