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" Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that. "

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" I'm not a big oyster eater. But I know people who will sit at a raw bar and eat oyster for two hours. "

" I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody. "

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" 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. "

" Catherine O'Hara's one of the most amazing, wonderful actresses, but she's an amazing improviser. She really is. "

" On film, when you're driving home from the set, you realize what you should have done, but it's too late. When you're taking the subway home from your play, you realize what you did wrong, and you go back the next night and you do it better, or you screw it up again in a different way. It's a different thing altogether. "

" 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. "

" Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities. "

" I like working with Bob Odenkirk. "

" I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help. "

" A character has to believe in himself, so I have to find a way to believe in them. Or at least sympathize to a degree. "

" You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule. "

" The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" I try and find a way to love every character I play. "

" My wife makes an amazing chili. "

" 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. "

" They were kind of like little Stephen King stories... but these go back many hundreds of years. "

" Some of the most interesting characters in literature and in movies and TV have been ones that you can't quite figure out all the way. "

" That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more. "

" 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 watch my wife knitting, and it's like watching close-up magic to me. "

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" I think 'The X-Files' was a very important moment in TV history. "

" 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. "