“There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‘Oh, you’re playing yourself.’ I guess it’s kind of a compliment.”

I say to the paparazzi, ‘Fellas, take your shot and go.’ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.

You don’t play characters that are celebrities – you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank’s blocked.

When I’m surfing, I’m sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin’ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.

I’ve been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mellow and then the day of the wedding freaking out.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

I love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them?

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go.

It’s not a science when you are judging art, but we’d be remiss to say you can’t look at something and say, ‘This is more well done than that.’

My last name is originally Irish. I’m not exactly sure whereabouts it’s from, but I’ve got family branches that were traced back there.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

And what I love is that it’s such a creative process, with a bunch of people, and I wanted that more, which is how the acting thing came about.

The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.

The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.

I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.

You have the unenviable choice between being dropped off last or being dropped off first and having a bunch of losers who can’t afford cab fare and have no friends or loved ones with cars knowing exactly where you live.

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

There’s a bunch of songs that I call B-sides on the record that you could argue could maybe have some potential commercial success with another artist, but for me, they just felt really whack.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.