Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl. People tend to not think of themselves as Tom Cruise or Bruce Willis. The leading man is something that they might like to be, but they aren't. The sidekick is somebody that they feel a little closer to, because the sidekick has the same human failings that they do.

It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.

I try to work and enjoy life, and that's about all.

The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then.

I've never been offered a job that I turned down and regretted. I didn't have Stanley Kubrick offer me something and me say no.

You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.