I like working. I wish I could say I made a deliberate choice to comedy, but it's just what came my way. It's what the studios wanted to make. Some of my friends were doing it, like Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, and they offered me 'Talladega Nights.' It's just nice work if you can get it. It's a joyful day at work, making your friends laugh.

I swear and it comes off a little angry, no matter how funny I'm trying to do it. If I use certain words with a certain intensity, it's like 'Whoa whoa whoa, buddy buddy!'

The way you get through having a shitty job is to laugh a lot and goof around.

I had [at school] my own little posse of people that all felt weird together so it wasn't so lonely.

I'm not of the manor born; I've never felt entitled in that way. I just came to Hollywood to be an actor. All that lifestyle stuff is something to be managed.

People say, 'Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?' But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you?

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.