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" I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.' "

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" I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal. "

" Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me. "

" It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married. "

" I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter. "

" Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them. "

" For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends. "

" Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary. "

" I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me. "

" We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other. "

" I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny. "

" That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.' "

" If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression. "

" I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever. "

" What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started. "

" The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical. "

" I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her. "

" But, you know, you can't be a star at home. "

" My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh. "

" Originality is really important. "

" Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. "

" I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting. "

" Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority. "

" People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. "

" I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course. "

" My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian. "

" I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing. "

" I love playing ego and insecurity combined. "

" I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do. "

" It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with. "

" Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them. "