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" After all these years, I've done well and I'm cool. I feel comfortable in my skin, I've saved some paper, everybody's healthy, my kids are beautiful and smart, doing different things, it's all good. "
Healthy
Smart
Good
" As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older. "
Softer
Older
Different
" Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor. "
You
Actor
Like
" Every now and then, when I think about it, I think, 'What would I even talk about onstage?' It's never been, 'I wonder if I'm funny. I wonder if I can come up with jokes.' It's more, 'What would it be like without the leather suit and the anger?' "
Anger
I Can
Funny
" From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic. "
More
Beginning
Dialogue
" Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again. "
Tell
Again
Marriage
" Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles. "
Growing Up
Listening
Growing
" However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have footage of themselves dancing around in the clouds with Michael Jackson. I do have that forever. "
People
Around
Clouds
" I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist. "
Go
I Can
Right
" I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty. "
Like
Write
Way
" I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row. "
Know
Death
People
" I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does. "
Does
Think
More
" If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow. "
Grow
Great
Opportunity
" If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie. "
Movie
Too
You
" If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being. "
You
Dressed
House
" If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it. "
You
Always
Back
" I had a band before I did standup - I've always done music. I got known for being funny, and that's how I make a living - and from acting - but I never stopped playing and producing and recording music. "
Funny
Done
Band
" I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in. "
Years
You
Filter
" I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure. "
Gentleman
Movies
Professional
" I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home. "
House
Leave
Home
" I love the Beatles. "
I Love
Love
Beatles
" I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters. "
Places
Things
America
" I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it. "
Age
Story
Someone
" I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor. "
Who
Think
Myself
" I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it. "
Want
Position
Me
" I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!' "
Now
Kind
Long
" I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now. "
Audience
Show
Reveal
" I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax. "
Relax
Been
Over
" I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything. "
Artist
I Am
Doing
" In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job. "
Think
Relationship
Job
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