Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

When you grow up in Chicago, your whole family is counting on you to go to college and do something distinguished. The last thing you're thinking is that you're going to make a career in show business.

I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

Everyone has experienced laughing at a funeral, and not even inappropriately. It could be a response to a moment of absurdity or some fond memory. We're human beings so we understand that laughter and crying aren't always disparate emotions.

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression.