“I’m very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.”

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!

Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.

A eugoogoolizer…one who speaks at funerals…Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?

When I didn’t have a family, I was much more of a workaholic. I still like to work, but I also want to be home with them. As you get older, you realize you need balance. If it’s not fun, what’s the point?

I think the most serious genre is the thing you’re going to get the most out of. If you’re trying to satirise a comedy, it’s hard to do that – it doesn’t really work as well. But I love the war movie genre and I’m a fan of all those movies that are part of what this movie is.

I’m just not a naturally cheery person. I’m naturally moody. I know that from people who spend a lot of time with me. People who spend a lot of time with me may not wish to spend a lot more time with me.

You’re freaked out that you’re going to be having a child, and once you’re looking after your daughter, it’s the most beautiful thing in the world.

You have to stay in character in between takes.

I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer’s couch in New York, and he said, “I’ve got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five days on it?”

Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty.

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.

It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.

And I don’t know where we are going. But wherever it is, I want to go there together.

I love the love our hearts beat together as if they’ve finally found their way home.

We were never right for each other. But damn we were such a good wrong while it lasted.

Let’s hold on to each other let’s recover together.