I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

I often don't think a lot about the ramifications of anything I do.

You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.

I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like. It was born 15 minutes ago, it looks like a potato

I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.

I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up.

'Elf' has become this big holiday movie, and I remember running around the streets of New York in tights saying, 'This could be the last movie I ever make,' and I could never have predicted that it'd become such a popular film.