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.

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.

I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.

I like people who try to do big things.

I'm not an improv guy. I'm not a nerd, I play one on television.

For an actor to have a role that they're recognized and remembered for over the years, it's unusual. It's very lucky if it happens once - and it's luck that it's happened to me a couple of times.

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.