Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

People are human. There's such a premium today on being perfect. That's just not the way people are.

I literally knew nothing when I did that show ["Tony Flanagan"]. It was the first time I signed an autograph, it was the first time I got fan letters, it was the first time people screamed when I came out.

Chris [Farley] - I would consider him a comic animal. With the emphasis on "animal."

We shot every scene of mine in the entire movie in five days. All my coverage, everything. I left. They went back and shot everybody else around me. Insane. The part [Billie in Crazy Six] called for a handsome, coiffed cool guy romantic lead, and I showed up like you see him in the movie. And they let me do it.

There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light.

It was sort of the first movie [The Specials ] where I really got to let my comedy freak flag fly. And everybody in it made me laugh really hard. I wish more people had seen it.