I choose a project based on whether it feels worthwhile working on when it comes to me. But secondly I choose it if it sounds like fun. Projects are determined by just how they strike me at the moment, as they have done throughout my whole life.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.

You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.

Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and having to stay alert and concentrated. Maybe that keeps your mind alive.