Teachers are everything. I mean, you're a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican.

I did an HBO movie called Undefeated that I directed. It was too hard.

Sid [the character from 'Ice Age'] is a prehistoric sloth. Sloths move really slowly and they store food in the cheek pouches. That's where I got the voice that you hear. He had to sound as though he was storing food.

I walked around my apartment with food in my mouth asking myself: "How do I come up with this voice?" Then I found the voice. I called the director and said on the phone: "Guess who you're talking to Chris? Sid, that's right Sid!" And that's how I came up with the voice. That's a true story.

Don't confuse the beginning of my world with the breakup of yours.

I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.

Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.