If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.

I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.

The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.

[My mother] is the greatest hero I'll ever know because she kept us all together, she made sure we all graduated college. She always believed in us no matter what we do. My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.

I always came away thinking "I'd like to see her more," you know? And then when [Parental Guidance] was ready to be cast, we thought - Bette [Midler]. So we called her.

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.