I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you never know you are funny until people laugh. It's just what I was interested in. I could make people laugh, I guess, but doing it at school and doing it onstage are very different things.

College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.

It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book. ... But there certainly is a difference in energy between a younger man and an older man.

I think when the movie `Roxanne' came out, which I also had written, I felt something new that I never felt, which was respect.

If you're studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.