I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.

You have to really know what you're saying.

If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now.

I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

They always say 'Is there going to be a sequel to Bad Santa?' and you know, I mean, a long time ago they would talk about, you know, we're going to do a sequel to that but it was never serious. And they said 'Would you do it?' and I said out of all the movies I've done, that was a lot of fun, and maybe I would do a sequel if it ever came up and it made sense, but I said I don't think that's ever going to happen.