If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.

The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough.

You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.