The way I reacted to 9/11 was I decided I didn't want to do any movies that are sad or critical. I decided I didn't want to make my living depressing people or making them go home sick, so I just decided I wanted to do comedy for a while and study it for a while. It doesn't mean everybody should do that, but that was my reaction.

When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.

I'm not hard to get along with.

If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.