I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.

Regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.

Stars don't want to have flaws. Stars like to be likable.

Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?

I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.

Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.

There is no best anything in art.