I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.

For a lot of people, if they're lucky, it begins with somebody who recognizes something in them.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

I'd never done any film or television. Well, I'd done one little stupid commercial in Boston when I was doing theater, but that was it.

When you walk on the set, whatever it is, you commit yourself to the job. You're committing yourself to doing the best you can do with it, no matter what you feel about it, and that never changes.

I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.

What I didn't realize is that the writing process for comedies is that you do your table read, and if you aren't funny on that first day during the table read, they take your jokes away and give them to somebody else.