I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.
Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure.
In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.
There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.
Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.
I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.
I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be married - you'll take anybody. If you want the Oscar really badly, it becomes a naked desire and ambition. It becomes very unattractive.
I think midlife crisis is just a point where people's careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.
There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That's when you want to be noticed, because it's very easy to get forgotten in an ER.
Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.
All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.
I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making.
I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was.
People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.
The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.
One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.
This really should be kept secret, but you can learn a lot by watching the making-of DVDs. Every actor should do it. You figure out what you're dealing with.
'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.
