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

Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

I don’t need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !

It’s weird that people expect me to be funny. I find it a real burden when I’m expected to be humorous on talk shows.

When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can’t go much further because ultimately it’s feeding off of somebody else’s creativity.

I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it’s called bipolar manic depression. I’ve got a rich history of that in my family.

Fashion is so over the top.

I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn’t going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.

I’d love to travel more. I really look forward to traveling with my kids. I’m just waiting for them to want to travel with me.

It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.

I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.

Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn’t let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I’ve decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.

I don’t know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, “Oh, you must have had a great childhood.”

God was showing off when he made you.

Nobody makes me bleed my own blood – nobody!

There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors.

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren’t cliche.

I didn’t really think in terms of clichés or non-clichés.

I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

Maybe it’s enough just to live life moment to moment. The most cliche but a true reminder: The past is gone and the future is not guaranteed.

I cried over beauty, I cried over pain, and the other time I cried because I felt nothing. I can’t help it. I’m just a cliché of myself.

Staring off into the sunset isn’t cliche at all.

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.