Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.

I wanted to be funny for people who didn't care about fashion at all, to just to kind of exist as a silly character.

Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.

I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family.

First of all, the first cut of the movie was like three and a half hours and I walked away going, 'Wow, I know there's like twenty minutes that I can cut - ' when I first saw it 'But I don't know after that.' The first time I put up then in front of people I was like, 'Oh, my God, I can take that out and that out and that out.'

I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.