I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.

That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.

I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.

I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.

If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.

Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.