Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.

But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' yeah, that's what I look for.

Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.

I'm not looking for anything. If you start looking for something specific, then you take providence right out of it. You can't completely control it. Otherwise you'd make the same kind of movie over and over again, which some people say I've done.