I was working with Bryan Cranston in 'All the Way.' We were about to make an entrance together - I was Hoover, he was LBJ - and he says to me, 'You should play the brother in 'Better Call Saul.' I was like 'What?' and it was time to go on. I'm doing the scene, and I can't think of what Hoover's supposed to say.
I can have a real long day; I can have a 14-hour day of intense work and then get home, and it's just me and TCM on into the night.
I watch my wife knitting, and it's like watching close-up magic to me.
I don't eat steak often, maybe once a month. But when I do, it really hits the spot. When you're done with your steak and your mashed potatoes and your green beans, you really know you've had dinner.
They were kind of like little Stephen King stories... but these go back many hundreds of years.
I think a villain who starts his morning looking in the mirror, wringing his hands, and going, 'How can I be evil today?' is not an interesting villain. An interesting villain is a person who you understand on some level, I think.
It's nice to take the gloves off, to really examine your character's desires and goals.
I pray to the shrine of 'Mr. Show.' It saved sketch comedy.
After I left 'Laverne & Shirley,' I got a ton of offers to play the goofy guy next door, and there were a couple of series that I was offered that turned out to be successful series, but it was too close to what I'd done on my series, and I was really glad I didn't take it.
I like working with Bob Odenkirk.
David Lander and I met in September of 1965. We were both students at Carnegie Tech, as it was then known. Before the Mellon money came in.
I'm not a lawyer, thank God. Not that there's anything wrong with it. I've never had the brain power for it. I was not the kind of guy who could learn case law.
That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more.
People seem to think if you're successful, then you have some secret. The fact is, you've just managed to work your life a certain way.
I'm not a big oyster eater. But I know people who will sit at a raw bar and eat oyster for two hours.
My wife makes an amazing chili.
There's more than one way to do TV just like there's more than one way to do widescreen movies.
I have never had a plan. Things happen to me, and, of course, I make friends who later say, 'Hey, you know who would be good for this? McKean would be good for this.' And they hire me, and if they like me, they hire me again, or the word gets out.
Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!
'Clue' was a big flop when it came out, but it became a... It's a movie that almost everyone references with me, now, when I run into people.
