Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all..

I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time..

Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 be….

I don't know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, "Oh, you must have had a great childhood.".

It's great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am..

I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family..

First of all, the first cut of the movie was like three and a half hours and I walked away going, 'Wow, I know there's like twenty minutes that I can….

If you look at my eyes when I'm dancing, you'll see that glazed look..

When you're doing a comedy and you want to somehow satirise people who are taking themselves seriously, I think the most serious genre is the thing y….

You have to stay in character in between takes..

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy..

It's hard to maintain a sense of dignity in an audition. I have done so many auditions where I've put it out there and have been met with that kind o….

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 opport….

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor..

As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out ….

I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody..

I love history. I'm very interested by it and I think it's great to have a movie that brings it alive in a way. It's sort of that romanticized versio….

I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor..