My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.

I'm fond of kissing. It's part of my job. God sent me down to kiss a lot of people.

Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.

You can't really accurately diagnose someone, I think. Or I've been told that.

What I really like is the marriage of both [writing and acting] - for instance, with Postcards. I don't actually act in it, but I worked on it with Mike [Nichols] as I went along, creating the character, so it was a bit like acting for me.

I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.

Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.