Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.

My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.

If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect.

The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.

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.

I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions.

Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy.