If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.

You know, sometimes you can't just take an armadillo, put it in the barn, light it on fire and expect it to make licorice.

I had auditioned for 'Saturday Night Live' two or three times before and never really saw myself there. I looked up to Belushi and Bill Murray and Aykroyd and I never saw myself as in their world.

If I only ran when nothing hurt, I would never run.

I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.