What kind of person would run for president of the United States in today's political climate? It would have to be somebody who's never really been drunk in public, who's never had an affair, who never shoplifted when they were a little boy, who never had any sort of counseling at all. I just don't know how you go through your life meeting people, experiencing everything you can, trying to absorb, and not make some of those mistakes. It's impossible.

I am getting on in years, and I have a very extensive IMDB page, and I cannot keep track of my own credits.

She [Virginia Madsen] and I had a really long relationship after that movie ['Class'] I love her, and I can imagine it was not much fun to do that big sequence with a bunch of laughing, ogling frat-boy actors. I mean, can you imagine putting up with me, [John] Cusack, Alan Ruck, and Andrew McCarthy at 18?

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

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

What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn't be anybody else's business.

My first lessons in comedy, how to construct a joke, I learned from Eileen Brennan, who had unbelievable timing.