Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.

Let's face it, most pretty girls aren't funny.

A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh.'

I collect flickering stars in old pickling jars, poking holes in the lids so they can breathe.

If you don't stick to your plan enough, and you're too seduced by whimsical notions and new ideas, you can kind of lose your train of thought and end up with something that doesn't have a solid through-line.

Don't we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker?

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.