There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
Why can't I just eat my waffle?
The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.
My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they're misunderstood. I don't think people realize how kind New York people are.
When I work, my first relationship with people is professional.
Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.
And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.
Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something.