I'm 48. For a while after 'The Jerk' (movie) I had a feeling of failure. I was a little scared. First people discover you and they love you. You get big and then you fail. And people are glad that you fail. But I've always come back and I've started to trust myself.

Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.

Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.

The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

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

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.

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