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" Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation. "

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" When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready! "

" Let's keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that's my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of fast food is their ability to artificially taint the colors and the smells and stuff to stimulate appetite. "

" Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C. When opportunity B comes, you don't even look at it because you're going straight to C. "

" I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place. "

" My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two boys. Then something happened with the chromosomal experiment and suddenly I've got three girls. "

" Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust. "

" We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition. "

" There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting. "

" I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. Not to date myself, but cable was just coming on. I had terrible territories, and they would give me $25, if I got somebody to let them come and just put the little cord in their house. "

" Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the job is always kind of the same. Who is this person? What's this guy here, and how is he playing with this thing, and what's he trying to say? And what's the volley with all these other people around him? "

" My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool. "

" I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit. "

" Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken. "

" Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too. "

" The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies. "

" A man always looks good in a dark suit. "

" Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene. "

" You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table. "

" I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars. "

" It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story. "

" I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills. "

" 'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for. "

" Sometimes I look back and think, 'Good. I'd love to go in and bang out a good episode of 'Talk Soup' today.' "

" I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all. "

" You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual. "

" Cat lovers turn into cat collectors. "

" I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. "

" There's times when I'll see a show, or something cooking on TV, and think, 'That can really be fun when it's working.' But it's a grind. I did that at NBC, it was five days a week. I was doing 'Talk Soup' and 'Later' at the same time. It's a hard job, more difficult than people realize. "

" I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long. "

" Everybody's family has problems. "