“I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.”

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.

All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She’s [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.

When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.

I’ve had a very good career and I’m grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

It’s what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I’m about.

I don’t play hockey at all. I’m not comfortable on skates.

I don’t think it’s ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.

I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.