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" 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. "
Business
Dance
Doing
" And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working. "
Like
Working
Only
" Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one. "
Meaningless
Me
Awards
" But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls. "
Advice
Live
People
" Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing. "
Never
About
Your
" Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then. "
I Can
Better
Comedy
" Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired. "
Drive
You
Just
" I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job. "
End
Money
People
" I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding. "
Out
More
Old
" I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making. "
Much
Guy
How
" I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar. "
Bar
Want
His
" I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them. "
Going
Want
Work
" 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. "
Feel
Ambition
You
" I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something. "
Home
Say
Day
" I'm a nut, but not just a nut. "
Just
Nut
" 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. "
Time
Feel
You
" I realized the more fun I had, the more relaxed I was working, the better I worked. "
Better
Working
Relaxed
" 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. "
You
Career
Think
" 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. "
Relationships
Crisis
People
" I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do. "
World
Reading
People
" I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just say I put a lot of Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good. "
Say
Party
Good
" I've been lucky, I've had movies that made a lot of money, so I don't feel like I have to kill every time out. I don't want that pressure. I don't need it. "
Pressure
Time
Feel
" I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. "
Reputation
Always
Work
" 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. "
Collaboration
Good
Mistakes
" Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time. "
Me
Acting
Good
" My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they're misunderstood. I don't think people realize how kind New York people are. "
Kind
New York
Realize
" No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life. "
Family
Life
Lonely
" One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are so brutal. "
Take
Brutal
Movies
" One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself. "
Myself
Acting
Back
" Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable. "
Fight
Police
Women
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