“I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.”

I don’t think know if anything’s going to translate anywhere. You’re making a movie, you hope it’s going to be funny, you can’t think about how it’s going to go over.

Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don’t play their game!

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.

I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he’s one of the best screen runners.

The cliches are that it’s the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.

My own parents were touchy-feely.

People like to define you through what they’ve seen you do. There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don’t sit around thinking, ‘I’ve been a bumbling suitor all my life.’

As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out than I do now.

There’s always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you’re a fraud after all!

I’m Jewish, but my mom’s Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put as much of myself as possible in Reality Bites, but in terms of my humor, I’m still trying to figure out what my sensibility is. It’s a process, really.

I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.

I know that I’m better as an actor when I’m working with a good actor. I think anytime you’re working with a better actor, it makes you a better actor.

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people’s expectations of me as a comic actor.

Oh, you can milk just about anything with nipples.

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going ‘straight,’ but I was just getting weirder – at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.

I’m more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We’re still married as parents.

The blessing that I got from my parents, even if they didnt really teach me about money, was their simple lifestyle.

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor’s Orphanage – he shot both his parents and moved in.

You can’t be a parent and say, ‘I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,’ when you’re still choosing to have poor eating habits.

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you’re serious, and I’ve always liked it.

It’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.

I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I’d beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, ‘Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.’