It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.

I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress.

I've found that Hollywood's a really honest business. They don't pull any punches. They tell you exactly what you want-I want the fake breasts and the flat car and the big pool. You know, they're real up-front about it.

My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

If you play Mark Twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing Mark Twain. That was the biggest challenge, in some ways. Writing and performing jokes that can come out of that brilliant delivery system he constructed: the friendly, avuncular truth-teller.