This town needs an enema!

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

I did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did.

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.

We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies-all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history-we all learn them at the movies.

I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me.

I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in salary, so I didn't.