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" I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie. "

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" One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre. "

" Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string. "

" We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture. "

" The idea of Juilliard was that it would give you this toolbox full of skills that you could take with you and apply to anything. "

" The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running. "

" The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction. "

" Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose. "

" I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there. "

" I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish. "

" In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity. "

" Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone. "

" I've had a lot of people tell me they watched 'Old Dogs' with their kids and had a good time. "

" Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got the human game preserve to play off of. And it's a lot of great characters everywhere. You work off that, and then you play the rooms, and eventually you get to a point where you're playing a club that is a comedy club, with other comics. "

" I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, 'My boy's got learnin'!' "

" Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier. "

" I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born. "

" A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills - no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while. "

" I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor. "

" What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong. "

" Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma. "

" In America they really do mythologise people when they die. "

" Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money. "

" The idea of having a steady job is appealing. "

" Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!' "

" I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone. "

" The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on. "

" The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' "

" When I went home from Juilliard, I couldn't find acting work. "

" Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves? "