"I found out if you're a funny guy, a lot of people like you."
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"When you talk about modern comedy I think there's a big three right now, and that's Louis C.K., Bill Burr, and Jim Jefferies. I don't think anyone's doing it better than those three guys."
"I was always the funny guy. Everyone wants to hang out with the funny guy."
"The bad guys are the best parts."
"Producers might cast an actor because he is too tall next to the leading lady, who is too short, or they might not cast your guy because he's blond, and they wanted a brunette. There's all kinds of reasons why they want one person over another. I don't worry about it, but it can hurt sometimes if you really wanted something, if you really went after something."
"I'll do more than the average actor, but I'm smart enough to know why stunt guys exist."
"If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen me very often on a daily basis and all the while growing up, I was very, very introverted. Very introverted. So I have sort of the extremes of both of those characteristics."
"When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s."
"The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know."
"You wouldn't want to see a movie where the bad guys triumph over the good guys all the time. You'd get bummed out, and you'd just stay at home and watch the news."
"There's a long history of all kinds of cop films... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys."
"We were all inspired by him as an actor and his iconography and thought, if we get somebody like Laurence Fishburne, we can tell a much more sophisticated, complicated version of Jack Crawford than we'd seen before as this large and in-charge and in-control guy, who is unflappable."
"You either swing a band or don't swing a band and that's what's lacking today.. There aren't any guys who get back there and play with any kind of guts."
"Long live the elite rower's motto:'early to bed, early to rise, never meet the regular guys.'"
"But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and me. They said I was more liberal than these guys, and that if I went to Washington I'd be supporting their agenda. I found that extremely difficult to overcome."
"If everyone else is doing something, I have little or no interest in it. If you're known as this guy who can do any kind of sound or voice or whatever, somebody will go, "Do you do Christopher Walken?" "No." "Well, why not?" "Because everybody else in the world does it." My carpenter does Christopher Walken."
"I got a liberal education. A white guy, rapping as Bugs Bunny, on a quintuple-platinum album."
"I'm no more intelligent than the next guy. I'm just more curious."
"I don't date guys that I just meet randomly. I don't feel comfortable meeting strangers."
"Since I was 15 years old, all I wanted was to find the guy I was going to marry."