I don't think there is enough youth employment or enough push for youths to kind of do want they want to do.

When I was growing up, we didn't have much money. What was important in my house was to have food on the table, be happy, and have our family.

Kids will pick up on weakness, and I was very shy growing up. I was skinny and flat-chested; I didn't have the latest clothes. For me, it was about being left out and not having any friends and being laughed at. I was very lonely, but that happens to so many people.

I was painfully shy as a child; I was dyslexic. I had a single mother who's an immigrant. I just didn't believe acting was something that people like me could do on a professional level.

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.