You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.

You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again.

I hope people find my movies funny and will watch them years from now. And, in terms of writing, I hope that something remains that will not seem old-fashioned, that will still have a ­vibrancy to it 50 years from now.

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.

I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old.

I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.

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