I can't even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work but it ain't easy.

Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.

Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits.

It's acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they're considered aggressive and opinionated.

If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.

Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.

My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.

Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.

Sometimes the wisdom of the elderly is equivalent to that of a child.

The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price.

The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.

For he that once is good, is ever great.

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.

Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.

Everyone loves a mysterious country.

Males and females have never seemed to fully understand each other. It will probably continue this way, but I think that's part of the magic of it all.

In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn't to sell out. It was to buy in. Most people use PCs, but Apple has the mindshare.