I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

I'm the age where we didn't have television as kids. So when I saw my nieces and nephews watching Howdy Doody, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and so forth, I thought the world had gone mad.

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.

I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.

When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way.