Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity

You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house

In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.

I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams as well.