I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.

I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.

At the end of the day, even if my part is a bit goofy, the key thing is that I'm doing what I love to do, and that's to make people laugh.

I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.

I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.

I don't believe I've ever played a hip dude. I don't think I would have the wherewithal to do that.

I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work.

I like to have a regimen. I don't like to be fancy free.

American Pie' was a big movie for me. No one knew it at the time, but it allowed me to be offered such movies as 'Like Mike' and 'New York Minute' with the Olsen twins

I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.

I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.

You are only as free as you think you are and freedom will always be as real as you believe it to be.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

We can kill lots of people. We do kill lots of people. We can destroy virtually anything we choose to destroy.

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.

The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.

Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.