I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

[In my pre-success years] there was a constant hunger, measuring myself against other actors, and there was sometimes fear. But, there was always a need for self-improvement, to help with the struggle to make myself a better actor.

The power of laughter & love would beat out the power of fear every time.

When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.

This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.

People just do the strangest things when they believe they're entitled. But they do even stranger things when they just plain believe.

I don't trust myself enough. When I write, I overwrite. Gingerbread. Too much gingerbread. Writing is probably the only hobby I have. But I wish I had another one. If I was just a little better at golf.