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I’ve always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It wont be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.

There’s always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what’s going to happen. You don’t know the story, but you know what they do.

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There’s nothing funny about flying to Houston.

Movies are an expensive business.

So I think if you’re happy with your brain, you’re powerful.

I’ve done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn’t take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn’t take off.

You can equate acting to a tennis game: When you’re playing one of the best, you get better.

Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don’t go to the editing room, you don’t see how they cut, you don’t see how they score, you don’t see how they cast the rest of the movie.

I’m not interesting enough on my own that you’d want to see a film about me.

The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that’s not changeable.

It’s interesting when you’re part of a group – the Jews, to be exact – that the world has had such problems with.

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn’t cool to say, at a young age, ‘I want to be a comedian.’

In the beginning of any career, in every job, people are always forcing you to the middle.

I got so good at writing to a budget, my brain was restricting myself. I’d write, It’s a stormy night. Then I’d cross out stormy. I’d write: It’s a calm night. Then I’d cross out night. It’s noon. Because you know how much night costs. You know how much rain costs. Nothing comes free in movies.

You always got to be happy when somebody likes what you do. It’s stupid not to be happy.

Well, you know, with every character, if you’re going to expose yourself, you’ve got to figure out every detail that you’re going to play. So there’s no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.

You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.

I’ve always been the king of silence. I’ve always been a minimalist comedian. I’ve taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that I’ve always done ‘less is more.’

If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit – if it’s solving that part of your brain saying, ‘I need to do this,’ you’ve won.

I’m a big consumer of news and I have my six newspaper sites booked. And what I like bout Twitter is it’s almost, it allows me to make a comment about something that’s just on my mind.

I’ve always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn’t represent anything like the rest of society.

Most entertainment is trying to get you. It’s tested, like toothpaste.

Regrets are stupid; they don’t mean anything and they don’t add up to anything.

I’ve always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn’t interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.

Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.

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One of the things I like about a character: I always think it’s fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn’t find anybody to deliver it correctly.

When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren’t actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.

Art and resistance are great together. That’s what art’s made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn’t cut off his ear because he was selling well.

I don’t want to get close to people who have secrets that I don’t know about.

I’d still like to see ‘Survivor’ minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business – I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else’s foot.

All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that’s all people know how to do when they’re improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.

I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.

My mother was supportive without knowing it. Deep down she wanted all the right things, she just didn’t see the world like I did, and she’s not supposed to.

If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they’re all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That’s what’s called American fiction these days.

When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn’t really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.

Donald Trump announces this morning that he will run for president. His hair will announce on Friday.

Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.

What’s interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It’s either a utopia or it’s misery. The real truth is that there’s going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

You make friends with older people and you always feel young no matter what.

Excited about Black Friday. Also excited about Jew Tuesday.

Twitter, to me, works if you’re funny. Twitter doesn’t work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.

Nobody will leave any place unless they’re forced out. That’s the nature of humans. Once you’re there, you’re there. I’ve never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place.

I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I’m fine.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There’s no magic to it.

Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad’s not great, but the steak is fine.

I’m not a person who I ever thought would do well with divorce. Not that it can’t happen. I just didn’t want that. So I waited a long time to meet the right person. Then I finally met someone that I was willing to be divorced from.

If anything happens to me, tell every woman I’ve ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way, they’ll have to reevaluate me.

As an actor, if you’re just sitting and staring and you don’t know who you are in your own mind, it’s vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.

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