Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.

Regrets are stupid; they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.

Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive?

Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.

Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.