Christmas was really where I started coming into my own as a performer because I did all this stuff on my own, all this performing on my own. When other kids were outside playing, I was in my room conjuring characters and impressions and things like that.

Hysterical in The Mask; funny yet moving in The Truman Show.

The only thing that has ever consumed me is love from time to time. Feeling like, 'What is it? How do I get it?'

I cannot be contained because I am the container.

The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love.

I started out performing as a little boy, I was trying to make my mother feel better and laugh because she was sick and in pain all the time. I found out that I had that power to relieve her.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.