“Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.”

The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.

Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.

I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,

And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.

Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.

There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.

I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.

I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.

I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.

Suddenly that means it’s more like a comic book, and It’s not really like that.

But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.

Usually when you say something’s a comic book movie, it means you turn on the purple and green lights.

My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.

But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.