The better the person you're with, the better you're going to be because they're giving you so much more.

[And on going from character to leading actor] I don't approach anything differently; I just approach it as a character. I'm always astounded at the fact that I've ever played a leading character in anything [Laughs]. And my wife concurs with that, frankly. She always thought I would be, at best, the wacky neighbor on a sitcom, so this is all just a surprise and a joy.

The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.

Being a leading man... that's like saying I want to be astronaut. That's not going to happen.

I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing.

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.