I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.

Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison.

There's no experience like on-the-job training.

I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.

Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.

I guess for me the greatest injustice is to see people robbed of that interiority and process of association.