You are much more dependent on luck than you think. People say if you want to have a good relationship, you have to work at it. But you never hear it about anything you really like, about sailing or going to soccer games.

In the event of war, I'm a hostage.

Do I believe in God? I did until Mother's accident. She fell on some meat loaf and it penetrated her spleen.

In order to be successful, all you've got to do is show up 80 percent of the time.

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?

If the [actors] are working, and I have a dinner engagement, I don't do 20 takes. I do five takes and go home. I want to go to dinner.

I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot.