It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

. . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me.

Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.

I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.

The teen years are extremely serious and everything matters and every insult really hurts. I know there are cliques and bullying. And you don't yet ­understand that it will all go away.

I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're crouching and hidden.